Chess Engine In Rust (V2)

Description

A Chess Engine built in Rust using Bevy ECS.

Game Features

• Player vs Player, Player vs Engine, and Engine vs Engine modes.
• Fast pseudo-legal move generation using magic bitboards.
• Legal moves generation that accounts for pins and checks.
• Castling and En Passant (AKA the bane of my existence).

AI Features

Search

• Iterative Deepening
• Alpha-beta pruning with move ordering
• Transposition Tables
• Quiescence Search
• Depth Reductions
• Search Extensions

Evaluation

• Tapered Evaluation
• Material Bonuses
• Piece Square Tables
• Imbalance Evaluation
• Mobility Evaluation

Installation

• Install Rust as instructed Here.
• Download and unzip the source code.
• Open a terminal in the directory just created by unzipping the file.
• Compile and run the code using the following commands:

# Compile the code in release mode
cargo build --release
# Run the code in release mode
cargo run --release