Vatu ==== Dumb chess engine written in Rust for fun. Features -------- - [UCI][cpw-uci] - Barely optimized board, position and moves representations - Simple [negamax][cpw-negamax] for node evaluation - [Alpha-beta][cpw-ab] search tree pruning for speeding searches [cpw-uci]: https://www.chessprogramming.org/UCI [cpw-negamax]: https://www.chessprogramming.org/Negamax [cpw-ab]: https://www.chessprogramming.org/Alpha-Beta Last time I checked it ran approximately at 10000 nps. Thanks to UCI the bot can run with most compatible software; [Cutechess][cc] has been used for testing. [cc]: https://github.com/cutechess/cutechess Usage ----- ### Build With Cargo: ```bash cargo build --release ``` With Docker, to avoid setting up a Rust toolchain: ```bash docker build -f res/docker/Dockerfile -t vatu-builder --target builder . docker create vatu-builder # Returns a container ID. docker cp :/src/target/release/vatu . docker rm docker rmi vatu-builder ``` ### Run If you built it with Cargo, the binary is in `target/release`. ```bash ./vatu ``` To run your own instance of the bot on Lichess (why would you do that?), create a bot account and get an OAuth token. Then using the full Docker image: ```bash # Fetch the lichess-bot submodule. git submodule update --init --recursive # Copy the config.yml template to your own copy and modify it. cp external/lichess-bot/config.yml.example /tmp/vatu-config/config.yml # Build the image. Make sure config.yml is not there to not embed it! docker build -f res/docker/Dockerfile -t vatu . # Run with the config folder mounted at /config. docker run -v /tmp/vatu-config:/config -ti vatu ``` TODO ---- - Support time constraints - Proper unmake mechanism instead of allocating boards like there is no tomorrow - Precompute knight some pieces moves, maybe - Transposition table that does not actually slows search down - Multithreading (never)