Rustic Alpha 1
This is the very first public release of Rustic. The chess engine is still very basic at this point, but fully functional for playing and analyzing games in a UCI interface. Below are the features included in this version.
The engine has been tested on the CCRL Blitz list: It's strength is 1695 Elo.
Engine:
Bitboard board representation
Magic bitboard move generator
UCI-protocol
Search
Alpha/Beta search
Quiescence search
MVV-LVA move ordering
Check extension
Evaluation
Material counting
Piece-Square Tables