Kingly is a UCI compliant chess engine written in Rust. You can play against it on lichess, where it is currently 2000-2100 rated.
Install Rust through rustup and run with cargo:
cargo run --release
Note: For now, the version of rust required is not stabilised, so it might be necessary to switch to the beta branch with
rustup toolchain install beta
For a graphical experience, add Kingly to your favorite UCI compliant GUI, e.g. Arena.
Board representation: Bitboards
Move Generation
- PEXT/PDEP based sliding piece attacks
Search: Fail-Soft Principal Variation Search
Search Enhancements
- Iterative deepening
- Quiescence search
- Transposition table
- Check extensions
- Move reordering based on PV and MVV-LVA
- Aspiration windows
- Null move pruning
- Reverse Futility Pruning
Evaluation: Piece/Square Tables
Other
- Graphical search debugging tool
- Eval improvements
- Lazy SMP parallelization
- More search enhancements
- Magic Bitboard fallback for move generation