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04rust + tauri chess engine

Chessero

a chess engine written in Rust with a Tauri desktop shell. the board renders and pieces move. the engine isn’t smart yet.

role
solo project
stack
Rust · Tauri · Svelte
links
source on github
psst, it’s interactive
a knight’s tour, solving itself.1/64
not the engine yet, just a knight’s tour to play with while it learns.

01 / overview

chessero is how i’m learning rust properly: a chess engine written from scratch, with a tauri desktop app and a svelte interface on top.

right now it knows the board and how the pieces move. it doesn’t know how to play well yet, and that’s the fun part still ahead.

02 / what it does

  1. 01

    board logic

    the core board representation that everything else builds on.

  2. 02

    move generation

    pseudo-legal moves for every piece, generated by the rust core.

  3. 03

    attack detection

    knowing which squares are under attack, the groundwork for check and checkmate.

  4. 04

    a native shell

    a tauri app with a svelte ui, so the engine runs natively on the desktop.

03 / how it’s built

  • Rust
  • Tauri
  • Svelte

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