Chess engine: Chers 0.8.0



Chers, is a chess engine written in Rust.
Rating CEDR=2036

The engine uses:
- BitBoards to represent the board (although not yet using their potential for ray generation)
- the UCI protocol to communicate with the GUI
- iterative deepening as a time management strategy and base for the alpha-beta search
- captures first move ordering

Resources / Credits
- Chers is heavily inspired by [rustic](https://github.com/mvanthoor/rustic), which also helped with its great [wiki](https://rustic-chess.org/)
- [Chess Programming Wiki](https://www.chessprogramming.org/Main_Page)
- [Chess programming Reddit](https://www.reddit.com/r/chessprogramming/)

Chers - Rating CEDR progres
Pl Engine Rating Score Games %
1654 Chers 0.5.0 2036.1 0.50 79 0.63
1666 Chers 0.6.0 2011.1 1.00 130 0.77
1685 Chers 0.4.0 1951.5 7.00 188 3.72
1706 Chers 0.2.1 1879.1 6.50 102 6.37
1710 Chers 0.6.1 1873.6 3.00 246 1.22
1724 Chers 0.3.2 1828.1 0.00 71 0.00



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