A chess engine written in Rust. Named after my brother who always beats me at chess.

Following the Chess Engine in C tutorial series.

cargo run      # Run the program
cargo test     # Run tests

Board representation: 120-square mailbox (10x12 array)

• 8x8 chess board embedded in a larger array with sentinel squares
• Simplifies move generation by avoiding boundary checks
• Valid squares: 21 (a1) to 98 (h8)

Current features:

• Core types: Piece, Square, Position, Board
• Type-safe coordinates using File and Rank enums
• Position indexing formula: (rank + 2) * 10 + (file + 1)
• Terminal rendering with grayscale board
• Filled Unicode chess pieces (♟♞♝♜♛♚) for both sides

• Board representation
• Move generation
• Position evaluation
• Search algorithm
• UCI protocol