chess_inator/README.md

chess-inator

A chess engine.

Features:

• Negamax search
• Alpha-beta pruning
• Piece-square tables
  • Tapered midgame-endgame evaluation
• UCI compatibility
• Iterative deepening
• Transposition table (Zobrist hashing)
  • Currently only stores best move.

instructions

To run the engine (in UCI mode):

cargo run --release

Quick unit tests:

cargo test

Longer duration, more rigorous tests:

cargo test --release

Flamegraph (on perft):

export CARGO_PROFILE_RELEASE_DEBUG true
cargo flamegraph --test perft