About The Project
chess-rs is a Chess Engine written from scratch in Rust that runs natively and on web!
Live Demo: https://parthpant.github.io/chess-rs/
Features
- Move Generation using BitBoards (<8s perft results at depth 6 for starting position)
- Supports all moves including en-passant, pawn promotion and castling
- GUI gameplay
- Perft Runner
- Egui Integration
- Board Evaluation (Matrial and Positional)
- AI (NegaMax with Quiescence Search)
- Move Ordering (MVV-LVA, Killer & History Heuristics)
- Zobrist Hashing
- Transposition Tables
- Incremental Search Deepening
- Opening Book
Getting Started
Prerequisites
Rust
You will require the rust toolchain to be installed on your system.
Follow: Rust Website
Note: If you only want to run natively you are good to go. To build for WASM you will also need to install the following.
Web Target
rustup target add wasm32-unknown-unknown
Trunk
cargo install --locked trunk
Build from source
Simply clone the Git repository and build using the cargo build system
git clone https://github.com/ParthPant/chess-rs.git
cd chess-rs
cargo build
Usage
# You can either start the Chess Engine with
cargo run
# Or you can run in the web browser with
trunk serve
# Or you can run perft analysis
cargo run -p chrs-perft -- 5 "rnbqkbnr/pppppppp/8/8/8/8/PPPPPPPP/RNBQKBNR w KQkq - 0 1"
License
Distributed under the MIT License. See LICENSE.txt for more information.
Contact
Parth Pant - @PantParth - [email protected]
Project Link: https://github.com/ParthPant/chess-rs.git