Chicory - Chess Engine

a UCI-compatible, dependence-less chess engine built in Rust

Chicory uses bitboards for fast move generation, with a handcrafted evaluation function and alpha-beta pruning to deliver a strong yet quick engine. A UCI-compatible GUI, such as cutechess, is required for play.

Features

• Bitboard movement generation
• UCI protocol support
• Minimax search
• Alpha-beta pruning
• Piece move table
• Magic bitboards
• Transposition tables
• Opening book support
• Endgame tablebases

UCI Options

• MaxSearchDepth <depth> - Limits the engine to only search to a preset depth before reporting a best move

UCI Extensions

Chicory also implements additional debug commands

perft <depth> # Return a count of total child nodes

Getting Started

Pre-built release version of Chicory, for Linux, Mac, and Windows, can be found here

Building From Scratch

Step 1: Clone repo

git clone https://github.com/achester88/chicory-engine.git && cd chicory-engine

Step 2: Build via Cargo

cargo build --release

Step 3: Find Binaries at

./target/release/chicory

License

The software is available under the GPL License.