Oxide chess bot

A simple Rust chess engine compatible with the UCI protocol. It does not come with a GUI. You can dowload a a separate one like Cute Chess.

Usage

You can directly form source

cargo run -r -- <command>

or build and then run the executable

cargo build -r
./taget/release/chessbot <command>

Internal implementation

Board representation

• Magic bitboards
• Bitboards with Little Endian Rank-File mapping
• 8x8 Board

Search

• Negamax
• Iterative deepening

Evaluation

• Centipawn scaling
• Tapered piece square table

Acknowledgements

• An amazing thanks to @mvanthoor for his work on Rustic that helped me understand a lot of concepts in Rust.
• Also a big part of my way of thinking was influenced by Stockfish. It was also a great tool to debug my code.