Crust

Overview

Crust is a simple Chess engine written in Rust.

Features

• Bitboard Based Board Representation
• Magic Bitboards for Sliding Piece Move Generation
• Alpha-Beta Search
• Iterative Deepening
• Quiescence Search
• Transposition Table
• Aspiration Windows
• Killer Move Heuristic
• Material and Piece-Square Based Evaluation

Planned

• Static Exchange Evaluation
• Mobility and Pawn Structure Evaluation Terms
• Negascout/PVS
• Null Move Pruning

Build

Simply run cargo build --release && ./target/release/crust. To run a simple benchmark, run cargo bench (this may take a little while).