Chrust is a chess engine written in Rust. (Very original I know). This is also an opportunity for me to learn rust above a beginner level and maybe build something kinda cool
Chrust supports the standard Minimax algorighm, A+B pruning, and Piece-Square tables for its decision making.
I'm by no means a Rust expert, so if you see any issues in the source code please don't hesitate to show me where I'm stupid.
To try your hand at beating rusty, either:
1: go to the releases tab and download the latest binary
2: Build and run from source
Rust tooling installed.
Clone the source code and navigate to the root directory, and run:
cargo run -- <args>If running over the Web (default), navigate to a browser and then go to either http://<your_local_ip>:8083 or http://0.0.0.0:8083
The binary currently supports several command line arguments.
./chrust [-z "TERM"|"WEB"] [-t TICK_SPEED] [-h HUMAN_PLAYS] [-p NUM_PLIES]| Flag | Name | Description |
|---|---|---|
| p | num_plies | Sets the number of turns (plies) the AI will look ahead. Becareful on numbers >= 4, as the program will become ungodly slow |
For a complete description on the arguments, run using the --help flag.
The third Chrust prerelease is completed! Checkout the prerelase here: 0.3.0
To run the program, unzip the archive pertaining to your operating system, and run the appropriate binary.
Any feedback is welcome!
The newest release of Chrust can be found here
If you wish to build in release mode yourself, build scripts are located in the repo root and titled build_<platform>.<extension>.
The build script will place the built binary in the release folder, under the sub folder named after the platform (win|mac|linux).
- Rust target profile: x86_64-pc-windows-msvc
- Visual C++ tool chain
- Rust target profile: x86_64-apple-darwin
- XCode tool chain
Distributed under the MIT License. See LICENSE for more information.
John Yenter-Briars - [email protected]
Project Link: https://github.com/johnyenter-briars/chrust