Crate chessie_types

Chessie Types

Contains primitives types for the chessie crate.

All types are re-exported by chessie, so you shouldn’t need to use this crate directly for any reason.

However, if you’d like to use this in your own projects, you can find the source code here.

Modules

prelude

Re-exports all the things you’ll need.

Structs

Bitboard

A Bitboard represents the game board as a set of bits. They are used for various computations, such as fetching valid moves or computing move costs.

BitboardIter

An iterator over all set bits in a Bitboard.

BitboardSubsetIter

An iterator over all possible subsets of a Bitboard.

File

Represents one of eight ranks on a chess board.

Piece

Represents a chess piece on the game board.

Rank

Represents one of eight ranks on a chess board.

Square

Represents a single square on an 8x8 chess board.

XoShiRo

A pseudo-random number generator using the “xoshiro” algorithm.

Enums

Color

Represents the color of a player, piece, square, etc. within a chess board.

PieceKind

Represents the kind (or “role”) that a chess piece can be.

Constants

BISHOP_DELTAS

Deltas for the movement of the Bishop.

FEN_KIWIPETE

A popular FEN string for debugging move generation.

FEN_STARTPOS

FEN string for the starting position of chess.

KNIGHT_DELTAS

Deltas for the movement of the Knight.

MAX_NUM_MOVES

Maximum possible number of moves in a given chess position.

NUM_CASTLING_RIGHTS

Number of possible combinations of castling rights.

QUEEN_DELTAS

Deltas for the movement of the Queen.

ROOK_DELTAS

Deltas for the movement of the Rook.

Functions

generate_magics

Generate magics for the Bishop and Rook and store them in <outdir>/rook_magics.rs and <outdir>/bishop_magics.rs.

generate_piece_attack_datfiles

Generates the default mobility for each of the pieces of standard chess, and writes the mobility to new files created in outdir.

generate_ray_table_datfiles

Generates .dat files for ray tables.