mvklingeren / chess-rs

A Chess Engine written in Rust that runs natively and on the web!

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 - [e-mail]

Project Link: https://github.com/ParthPant/chess-rs.git