mvanthoor
released this
This is the very first public release of Rustic. The chess engine is still very basic at this point, but fully functional for playing and analyzing games in a UCI interface. Below are the features included in this version.
The engine has been tested on the CCRL Blitz list: It's strength is 1695 Elo.
Engine:
Bitboard board representation
Magic bitboard move generator
UCI-protocol
Search
Alpha/Beta search
Quiescence search
MVV-LVA move ordering
Check extension
Evaluation
Material counting
Piece-Square Tables