Pleco is a chess Engine inspired by Stockfish, written entirely in Rust.
This project aims to utilize the efficiency of Rust to create a Chess Bot with the speed of modern chess engines.
The internal Board Implementation aims to have the following features upon completion - [x] Bitboard Representation of Piece Locations: - [x] Ability for concurrent Board State access, for use by parallel searchers - [x] Full Move-generation Capabilities - [x] Statically computed information (including Magic-Bitboards) - [x] Zobrist Hashing - [ ] UCI protocol implementation - [ ] Allowing matches against Human Player
The AI Bot aims to have the following features: - [x] Alpha-Beta pruning - [x] Multi-threaded search with rayon.rs - [x] Queiscience-search - [x] MVV-LVA sorting - [x] Iterative Deepening - [x] Aspiration Windows - [x] Futility Pruning - [x] Transposition Tables - [ ] Null Move Heuristic - [ ] Killer Moves
Currently, Pleco's use as a standalone program is limited in functionality. A UCI client is needed to properly interact with the program. As a recommendation, check out Arena.
Firstly, clone the repo and navigate into the created folder with the following commands:
$ git clone https://github.com/sfleischman105/Pleco --branch master
$ cd Pleco/
Once inside the pleco directory, build the binaries using cargo:
$ cargo build --release
The compiled program will appear in ./target/release/.
Pleco can now be run with a ./Pleco on Linux or a ./Pleco.exe on Windows.
To use Pleco inside your own Rust projects, Pleco.rs is available as a library on crates.io. Simply include the following in your Cargo.toml:
rust
[dependencies]
pleco = "0.1.1"
and add the following to a main.rs or lib.rs:
rust
extern crate pleco;
Any and all contributions are welcome! Open up a PR to contribute some improvements. Look at the Issues tab to see what needs some help.
Pleco is distributed under the terms of the MIT license. See LICENSE-MIT for details. Opening a pull requests is assumed to signal agreement with these licensing terms.