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Magpie is a reasonably efficient Othello library.
Magpie is built with bitboards which allows for extremely fast updates and
queries. Two abstraction levels are available, the higher level Game
and lower-level Board. The Game-struct guarantees that only legal
moves will be made and that the board will be kept consistent. The drawback
is that it is not as flexible or performant as the alternative. The
Board-struct does not keep track of whose turn it is, whether a player
passed their turn, or validates inputs, which makes it better suited for
engines.
There is no explicit support for Reversi, a similar game. However, magpie is flexible enough that it is possible to implement Reversi as well, in exchange for some additional bookkeeping.
Serialization with Serde is not supported by default. If you want to opt into using magpie with Serde you can enable a feature flag. Simply change your magpie dependency to the following:
[dependencies]
magpie = {version = "0.11", features = ["serde"]}