surge
A fast bitboard-based chess move generator in C++ (by nkarve)
cozy-chess
A Chess and Chess960 move generation library written in Rust (by analog-hors)
| surge | cozy-chess | |
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| 2 | 3 | |
| 52 | 42 | |
| - | - | |
| 0.0 | 6.1 | |
| over 1 year ago | about 1 month ago | |
| C++ | Rust | |
| MIT License | MIT License |
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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
surge
Posts with mentions or reviews of surge.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-12-10.
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Interested in creating, playing and testing your own chess engine?
https://github.com/ShailChoksi/lichess-bot is a straight forward way to use any UCI engine with lichess. There are also a few libraries for move generation mine: https://github.com/Disservin/chess-library , libchess: https://github.com/kz04px/libchess , surge: https://github.com/nkarve/surge . These are C++ ones, for rust theres https://github.com/analog-hors/cozy-chess . In python you could use python-chess but its incredibly slow for engine stuff writing your own will probably be faster if you know what you are doing.
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Why are templates being used here?
https://github.com/nkarve/surge/tree/master/src heres the repo if you want to have a look.
cozy-chess
Posts with mentions or reviews of cozy-chess.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-07-03.
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Help me find a perfect hash function and fill a hash table in compile time
If you'd like to reference something, my movegen crate cozy-chess does this. I also have a standalone reference implementation here as part of my magic bitboard article.
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Interested in creating, playing and testing your own chess engine?
https://github.com/ShailChoksi/lichess-bot is a straight forward way to use any UCI engine with lichess. There are also a few libraries for move generation mine: https://github.com/Disservin/chess-library , libchess: https://github.com/kz04px/libchess , surge: https://github.com/nkarve/surge . These are C++ ones, for rust theres https://github.com/analog-hors/cozy-chess . In python you could use python-chess but its incredibly slow for engine stuff writing your own will probably be faster if you know what you are doing.
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cozy-chess: A Chess and Chess960 move generation library
A while back, I got into computer chess. I used Jordan Bray's neat chess crate for move generation, and was pretty satisfied until I took a look at the code. It's pretty good and all, but... So. Much. unsafe. Out of a mix of frustration and curiosity, I made it my next project to create my own chess move generation library. So... here it is, I guess: https://github.com/analog-hors/cozy-chess/ It's my first crate, so feedback would be appreciated! It's currently being used in my (weak) chess engine Tantabus.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing surge and cozy-chess you can also consider the following projects:
chess-library - C++ chess library
shakmaty - A Rust library for chess and chess variant rules and operations
lichess-bot - A bridge between Lichess API and chess engines
tantabus - WIP Rust UCI chess engine
Walleye - A chess engine written from scratch in Rust ♞
chess_perft - Test the chess rust library provided by jordanbray/chess
Cadabra - Original chess engine written in rust
camel - Bitboard-based UCI-compatible chess/chess960 engine written from scratch in Rust.
Pleco - A Rust-based re-write of the Stockfish Chess Engine