Chess with Rust

A Chess implementation on the terminal (pass-to-play), written in Rust.

Features

• Grid display in the terminal
• Two players
• I/O to play the game
• Every piece of Chess
• Double pawn push
• Castle
• En passant
• Pawn upgrade
• Check, Checkmate and Stalemate
• Tie by 50 moves rules
• Every normal feature of chess not cited in the future features

Features to implement (Coming soon!)

• Tie by repeated moves (3 or 5)
• Tie by missing material (Now it only works when kings are the only piece on the board)
• Minimax to implement a bot

Requirements

• Rust (stable) — install via rustup

Building the project

Clone the repository and build it in release mode:

git clone https://github.com/CieriA/rusty-chess
cd rusty-chess
cargo build --release

Running the game

cargo run --release

Controls

• A1-H8 / a1-h8 → to index the board from the terminal

Development notes

This project uses the following crates:

• colored
• indexmap

Docs

To build the documentation locally:

cargo doc --open

License

This project is licensed under the ISC License. For more info, see the LICENSE file.