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Rustic, a didactic, UCI compliant open source chess engine by Marcel Vanthoor, written in Rust, released on GitHub under the GPL license, still in its alpha phase. First announced in February 2020 , its progress of development is reported by its author in a CCC forum thread.

=Features=

Board Representation

 * Bitboards
 * Fancy Magic Bitboards

Search

 * Iterative Deepening
 * Alpha-Beta
 * Transposition Table
 * Move Ordering
 * Hash Move
 * MVV-LVA
 * Selectivity
 * Check Extensions
 * Quiescence Search

Evaluation

 * Material
 * Piece-Square Tables

=Forum Posts=
 * New chess engine: Rustic by Marcel Vanthoor, CCC, February 23, 2020
 * Progress on Rustic by Marcel Vanthoor, CCC, September 16, 2020
 * Rustic vs. Shallow Blue: one of us is weird somehow by Marcel Vanthoor, CCC, October 30, 2020 » Shallow Blue
 * Your motivation for writing a chess engine? by Marcel Vanthoor, CCC, March 05, 2021
 * Hitting a wall at ~1860 Elo by Marcel Vanthoor, CCC, June 02, 2021

=External Links=

Chess Engine

 * About - Rustic Chess Engine
 * GitHub - mvanthoor/rustic: Rustic is a chess engine, written from scratch in the Rust programming language
 * Rustic Alpha 1 64-bit in CCRL Blitz

Misc

 * rustic - Wiktionary
 * Cupha erymanthis, the rustic from Wikipedia

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