Zeal

<h1 align="center">Zeal</h1>

**Zeal** is a UCI-compliant chess engine written in Rust. I started developing it as a side project while learning Rust.

## Running Zeal
```
git clone https://github.com/stefiosif/zeal.git
cargo r -r -- --mode uci
```

## Features
- Board Representation
  - Bitboards
  - Redundant Mailbox
- Move Generation
  - Magic Bitboards
  - Pseudo-Legal Generator
  - Unmake Move
- Communication Protocol
  - UCI
- Search
  - Negamax
  - Alpha-Beta Pruning
  - Quiescence
- Move Ordering
  - MVV-LVA
  - Transposition Table
- Evaluation
  - PeSTO's
- Time Management
  - Iterative deepening
  - Hard limit


## Rating
Unrated.

## Acknowledgements
Huge thanks to:
- CodeMonkeyKing for his chess programming videos
- Chess Programming Wiki
- `Engine Programming` discord server

Development tools:
  - [Bitboard Calculator](https://gekomad.github.io/Cinnamon/BitboardCalculator/)
  - [Lichess Editor](https://lichess.org/editor)
  - [cutechess](https://github.com/cutechess/cutechess)
  - [webperft](https://analog-hors.github.io/webperft/)

Cool videos:
  - [The Fascinating Programming of a Chess Engine](https://youtu.be/w4FFX_otR-4?si=_Rt4wcJZsS2duMQM)
  - [Coding Adventures: Making a Better Chess Bot](https://youtu.be/_vqlIPDR2TU?si=PKWe_Qu_CPGwIAwE)