This project consists of a mediocre chess computer and a mediocre chess gui that only works with this chess computer.

How to build & run

Both subprojects /chessian and /gui can be built using cargo, to launch the chess gui running the computer, one could e. g. issue:

$ git clone https://github.com/***REMOVED***/chessian
$ cd chessian/gui
$ cargo run --release

Features

1. Chess computer
   • correct and fast move generation using a chess library
   • alpha-beta pruning search using a full q-search to fully evaluate capture chains
   • Performance: Reaches depth 5–7 within 5 seconds on my machine, before performing the q-search also within the same 5 seconds
2. Chess gui
   • play chess against the computer or by yourself
   • automatically evaluate each position
   • control the computers strength
   • freely undo and redo moves
   • keyboard shortcuts:
     • a -> toggle auto response by computer
     • f -> print current FEN to stdout
     • m -> make the engine move
     • ctrl+z -> undo the last move
     • ctrl+y -> redo the last move
     • s -> toggle square names
     • p -> toggle pieces
     • i -> invert the board
     • r -> reset the game
     • t -> analyze the whole game