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Rust Chess Library

This is a chess move generation library for rust. It is designed to be fast, so that it can be used in a chess engine or UI without performance issues.

Structs

• BitBoard
  A good old-fashioned bitboard You do not have access to the actual value. You do have access to operators
• Board
  A representation of a chess board. That’s why you’re here, right?
• CacheTable
  Store a cache of entries, each with an associated hash.
• ChessMove
  Represent a ChessMove in memory
• MoveGen
  The move generation iterator This structure enumerates moves slightly slower than board.enumerate_moves(…), but has some extra features, such as:
• Square
  Represent a square on the chess board

Enums

• BoardStatus
  What is the status of this game?
• CastleRights
  What castle rights does a particular player have?
• Color
  Represent a color.
• File
  Describe a file (column) on a chess board
• Piece
  Represent a chess piece as a very simple enum
• Rank
  Describe a rank (row) on a chess board

Constants

• ALL_CASTLE_RIGHTS
  Enumerate all castle rights.
• ALL_COLORS
  List all colors
• ALL_FILES
  Enumerate all files
• ALL_PIECES
  An array representing each piece type, in order of ascending value.
• ALL_RANKS
  Enumerate all ranks
• ALL_SQUARES
  A list of every square on the chessboard.
• EMPTY
  An empty bitboard
• NUM_CASTLE_RIGHTS
  How many different types of CastleRights are there?
• NUM_COLORS
  How many colors are there?
• NUM_FILES
  How many files are there?
• NUM_PIECES
  How many piece types are there?
• NUM_PROMOTION_PIECES
  How many ways can I promote?
• NUM_RANKS
  How many ranks are there?
• NUM_SQUARES
  How many squares are there?
• PROMOTION_PIECES
  What pieces can I promote to?

Functions

• between
  Get a line between these two squares, not including the squares themselves.
• construct
  Call before using any objects within this library. Must be called at least once. Can be called more than once, and is thread safe.
• get_adjacent_files
  Get a BitBoard that represents the squares on the 1 or 2 files next to this file.
• get_bishop_moves
  Get the moves for a bishop on a particular square, given blockers blocking my movement.
• get_bishop_rays
  Get the rays for a bishop on a particular square.
• get_file
  Get a BitBoard that represents all the squares on a particular file.
• get_king_moves
  Get the king moves for a particular square.
• get_knight_moves
  Get the knight moves for a particular square.
• get_pawn_attacks
  Get the pawn capture move for a particular square, given the pawn’s color and the potential victims
• get_pawn_moves
  Get all the pawn moves for a particular square, given the pawn’s color and the potential blocking pieces and victims.
• get_pawn_quiets
  Get the quiet pawn moves (non-captures) for a particular square, given the pawn’s color and the potential blocking pieces.
• get_rank
  Get a BitBoard that represents all the squares on a particular rank.
• get_rook_moves
  Get the moves for a rook on a particular square, given blockers blocking my movement.
• get_rook_rays
  Get the rays for a rook on a particular square.
• line
  Get a line (extending to infinity, which in chess is 8 squares), given two squares. This line does extend past the squares.