chess VS Walleye

Compare chess vs Walleye and see what are their differences.

chess

A chess library, chess engine, Lichess client, and UCI implementation written in Java (by marvk)

Walleye

A chess engine written from scratch in Rust ♞ (by MitchelPaulin)
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chess Walleye
1 2
17 119
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0.0 1.8
about 1 year ago about 2 years ago
Java Rust
- MIT License
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chess

Posts with mentions or reviews of chess. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects.
  • Java Fx Chess
    1 project | /r/JavaFX | 8 Aug 2021
    If you're interested, here's my chess implementation including an engine (sans UI): https://github.com/marvk/chess

Walleye

Posts with mentions or reviews of Walleye. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-01-06.
  • Chrust - Chess Engine Written in Rust
    2 projects | /r/rust | 6 Jan 2022
    Hey, author of Walleye here. Also learned rust by writing my own chess engine :). Played a game and it looks neat, really cool you deployed it on your own server with its own frontend.
  • First Rust Project: A Chess Engine
    1 project | /r/rust | 19 Jun 2021
    I have been wanting to learn rust for a while and recently decided to just sit down and make something. For some reason I decided a chess engine would be a good first project despite having no experience with either rust or chess engines... Anyway here it is

What are some alternatives?

When comparing chess and Walleye you can also consider the following projects:

liground - A free, open-source and modern Chess Variant Analysis GUI for the 21st century

KhepriChess - Chess engine written in TypeScript, from scratch. Browser and UCI support.

irwin - irwin - the protector of lichess from all chess players villainous

fastchess - Predicts the best chess move with 27.5% accuracy by a single matrix multiplication

lichess-bot - A bridge between Lichess API and chess engines

cozy-chess - A Chess and Chess960 move generation library written in Rust

jfxchess - JFXChess - Chess Program

chess-rs - A Chess Engine written in Rust that runs natively and on the web!

chess-pieces - Chess, Janggi, Xiangqi, Sittuyin pieces and boards

lila-tablebase - Tablebase server

jchessify - Java chess engine framework.

rush - Pure Rust chess engine.