shogai

a rust interface for shogi engines

What it is

an helper programm that can create, manage, display (on terminal), and modify a shogiban (the board of shogi)

What it means: You can create a board, ask for possible (legal) moves, play such a move, print a board on the CLI, get things like the value (good position?) and nice things.

who it is for

Honestly, I don't really know. Do you want to implement a shogi engine? Maybe that's the right place... I mean, you can do a shogi engine in a few lines (see ai::greedy) with the help of shogai, but as long as performance is a concern, I cannot offer any garanties. It is still quite optimized, but code clarity was more important than pure speed here.

I do not have a way to compare performance with other shogi engines, as implementing a shogi engine is a completely different story, tons of if/elses branches etc...

If you are interested in building your own high-perf shogi engine in rust, you can use this helper to fasten development. Although you would have to re-do the board representation format yourself and handle conversion, it's still wort it:

• CLI interface? Done
• move-checking (in case you are not 100% sure of yours)? Done
• Simple structure for pieces, position, movements with parsing? Done

installation

add

shogai="*"

to your Cargo.toml

contributing

PR can be accepted, and contributors are welcome!