Zeal

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
• Lichess Editor
• cutechess
• webperft

Cool videos:

• The Fascinating Programming of a Chess Engine
• Coding Adventures: Making a Better Chess Bot