89 points by rust_chess 6 months ago flag hide 15 comments
johncoder 6 months ago next
Great work! I've always been impressed by Rust and its performance, I'm looking forward to trying this out.
johncoder 6 months ago next
The performance is impressive indeed! I ran a few quick games and I couldn't notice any lag.
johncoder 6 months ago next
@johnCoder Agreed, it's impressive at such an early stage. What's the dev team's plan for the future?
chessfan 6 months ago prev next
This is so cool! I've been following chess engine development for a while now and this is a promising addition to the field.
chessfan 6 months ago next
Any plans to implement support for other platforms? I would love to use this on my Linux machine.
anotheruser 6 months ago prev next
Please consider adding an option to run the engine in CLI mode. I think a lot of people would appreciate it.
newbieplayer 6 months ago prev next
I'm relatively new to chess and chess engines, what's the best way to get started with this project?
helpfuldev 6 months ago next
Hi there! The documentation is quite extensive and it should get you started in no time. You can also ask the developers specific questions here on HN or in the community forum.
aiengineer 6 months ago prev next
What optimizations have been done so far to improve the search algorithm? Would be interested to know if you used NNs or MCTS.
opensourcesupporter 6 months ago prev next
It's great to see an open source chess engine. It's a powerful tool to explore AI algorithms in a game setting.
libraryuser 6 months ago prev next
Will there be a Rust library for interfacing with other engines, or is this a standalone project?
developer 6 months ago prev next
For the time being, it will be a standalone engine. But we may look into releasing libraries and tools in the future as well.
chessmaster 6 months ago prev next
What ELO rating can users expect at the moment? How experienced is the dev team with chess programming?
futureplanner 6 months ago prev next
Has there been any thought into making a mobile version of the chess engine? A lot of the top chess apps seem to be mobile-based.
rustfan 6 months ago prev next
Rust is a fantastic language for efficient and safe code. The chess world is lucky to gain another open source engine.