Chress

A UCI compliant chess move generator.

Technical Specs

• Bitboard board representation
• Magic bitboards for sliding moves
• Piece-lookup tables for knights/kings
• Bulk pawn move generation
• Compressed Move + Flags structs

Usage (Debugging CLI)

1. Clone the project locally

git clone https://github.com/LucDeCaf/chress

2. CD into the project folder and run the CLI using Cargo

cd chress
cargo run -p chress_cli

3. Enter the 'disp' command into the terminal and press Enter to confirm the program is working

<< disp
>> 8  R N B Q K B N R
>> 7  P P P P P P P P
>> 6  . . . . . . . .
>> 5  . . . . . . . .
>> 4  . . . . . . . .
>> 3  . . . . . . . .
>> 2  p p p p p p p p
>> 1  r n b q k b n r
>>    A B C D E F G H

NB: See the README.md in chress-cli for a full list of debugging commands

Usage (UCI)

1. Clone the project locally

git clone https://github.com/LucDeCaf/chress

2. CD into the project folder and run the CLI using Cargo

cd chress
cargo run -p chress_cli

3. Enter the 'uci' command to enter UCI mode

<< uci
>> id name Chress
>> id author Luc de Cafmeyer
>> uciok