Chusst, a very simple chess engine in Rust

Simple project to learn about chess programming, Rust and Tauri.

How to build

Run cargo tauri dev from src-tauri to build and run the UI, which will allow you to play against the engine.

Features

Generates and verifies all the legal moves, including en-passant, castling and promotion.
Evalutation using alpha-beta pruning.
Bitboard attack tables.
UI using Tauri and React + Typescript.
pgn2yaml: converts PGN games to YAML.

In progress

chusst-uci: a UCI server.

To do

Fifty-move rule.
pgn2yaml ignores variations.

License and copyright

This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License.

The icon and the chess piece set used in this software have been created by Colin M. L. Burnett.