fen4

A Rust library to parse and write fen4 file formats.

This provides a mapping from a simple representation of a 4 player chess board and the fen4 file format used by Chess.com. Any non-trivial computation is likely to have a separate data format, but this generates useful error messages and correctly handles almost every variation of 4 player chess (including tons of non-standard pieces).

Usage

Cargo.toml [dependencies] fen4 = "0.1"

rust fn main(){ let empty_fen = "R-0,0,0,0-0,0,0,0-0,0,0,0-0,0,0,0-0-14/14/14/14/14/14/14/14/14/14/14/14/14/14"; let board : Result<fen4::Board,fen4::BoardParseError> = empty_fen.parse(); println!("{}",board.unwrap()); }

Rust version requirements

fen4 requires Rustc version 1.32 or greater. This could certainly be lowered, but it is unlikely to be needed and would be a non-trivial amount of work.