This is a chess engine made in Rust. It was originally made for my Year 2 Computer Science A-level project.

To compile, make sure you have Rust installed. Then, run cargo run --release from the root directory.

Features:

• Bitboard-based representation and move generation (with a redundant mailbox)
• Magic bitboards
• UCI compatibility
• Lazy SMP
• Aspiration windows
• Principle variation search
• A transposition table
• Null move pruning
• Staged movegen
• Move ordering:
  • TT-move
  • MVV + SEE captures
  • Killer moves
  • Counter moves
• Histories:
  • Butterfly history
  • Continuation history
  • Correction history
• Late move pruning
• Futility pruning
• Extensions:
  • Check extensions
• Late move reductions
• Quiescence
• Piece-square tables