Ruchess

Important

THIS PROJECT IS UNDER ACTIVE DEVELOPMENT. THERE ARE CORE FUNCTIONALITIES THAT HAVE NOT BEEN IMPLEMENTED YET DO NOT USE.

Chess library, tui and engine written in Rust.

Contains:

• core chess library in ruchess-core
• tui in ./ruchess-bin
• engine in ./ruchess-engine !NOT IMPLEMENTED

Usage

Ruchess is not yet published on crates.io.

First clone this repo.

git clone github.com/zjom/ruchess --head

As library

Update your cargo.toml file with a dependencies section pointing at the path of where you cloned this project.

Example:

[package]
name = "urpackage"
version = "0.1.0"
edition = "2024"

[dependencies]
ruchess-core = { path = "<path to repo root>/ruchess-core" }

use ruchess_core::{Game, Move};

fn main()->{
    let mut game = Game::new();
    println!("{}",game);
    let m:Move = "e2e4".parse().expect("failed to parse move");
    game.make_move(m).expect("invalid move");
    println!("{}",game);
}

As a TUI

cargo run <path to repo root>

Roadmap

CORE

• enforce checks
• end of game determination
• optimise attack calculations using precomputed magic numbers
• serialize/deserialize game/move encoding formats
  • ACN
  • FEN
  • PGN

Engine