Pleco Engine 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.
This project is split into two crates, pleco_engine (the current folder), which contains the
UCI (Universal Chess Interface) compatible Engine & AI, and pleco, which contains the library functionality.
The overall goal for this project is to utilize the efficiency of Rust to create a Chess AI matching the speed of modern chess engines.
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.
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.