Ruky contains components used to build a chess engine written in rust. It is in a very early stage of development - at this point it only supports random moves. The goal is for Ruky to be a modular chess engine employing the same techniques used by AlphaZero, and to reach a grandmaster level of play.
Currently, Ruky only supports playing in random mode. To play against Ruky, one must use a frontend with support for the UCI protocol. For example, one can use xboard to play with Ruky using the following command:
xboard -fcp /some/path/ruky -fd . -fUCIThe options above translate to:
-fcp: The first chess program, i.e., the chess engine, which represents the absolute or relative path to the ruky binary.-fd: The working directory for the first chess engine.-fUCI: Specifies that the engine uses the UCI protocol. Note that xboard uses the Polyglot adapter for UCI, so it maybe necessary to install the adapter.
To play Ruky against itself or another engine, one can also use xboard:
xboard -fcp /some/path/ruky -fd . -fUCI -scp /another/path/another_engine -sd . -sUCI -matchMode TThe goal is for Ruky to be a modular chess engine built from multiple pluggable components that ideally can be used independently of Ruky. At the moment, there are only two components with corresponding crates:
ruky: this contains the chess logic, i.e., the part that encodes the rules and representation of the game.uzi: this contains a simple UCI protocol library. It provides an interface that can be implemented to be able to use a frontend like xboard to play against the engine.