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niklasf / shakmaty

A Rust library for chess and chess variant rules and operations
https://docs.rs/shakmaty
GNU General Public License v3.0
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UCI/XBoard Support #22

Open Mk-Chan opened 5 years ago

Mk-Chan commented 5 years ago

I can see the point here: https://github.com/jordanbray/chess/issues/6 but it also suggests putting all the engine communication stuff into a different library which I'm not too much a fan of as it may be harder to discover. Is there any consensus on this? I actually would like to help out too but my Rust is not up to the mark yet.

niklasf commented 5 years ago

We disagree on where to draw the line, for example I think it's a good idea to at least include parsers for notation like e1h1 and Naxb3, but a full implementation of the UCI protocol (or XBoard) definitely belongs in a seperate crate. Managing dependencies is much more comfortable with cargo than with pip.

denizsincar29 commented 1 year ago

@niklasf now how to communicate with uci chess engines via rust that beautiful way as I did in python chess? Don't want to make all dirty work and parse it myself...

johanfleury commented 6 months ago

Hey, I just published shakmaty-uci. It provides an enum (UciMessage) to write and parse UCI messages to and from the engine. It’s based on/inspired by vampirc-uci but uses Nom for parsing.

It does not (yet) handle actual communication with the engine, but I’ll probably add that in the future.

@niklasf if you’re interested, I started this crate as a module of shakmaty. I think it might be better to have this as a separate library, to not clutter shakmaty (especially if I add engine communication), but I could easily provide a PR if you would be interested in integrating this in your crate.