1. Title Page
  2. Preface
  3. About this book
  4. About Rustic
  5. Downloads
  6. Prerequisites
  7. Introduction
    ❱
    1. Concept
    2. Design
    3. Roadmap
  9. Board Representation
    ❱
    1. Introduction
    2. Bitboards
    3. Piece List
    4. Zobrist Hashing
    5. Game State
    6. Game History
    7. Board struct
    8. Initialization
  11. Board Functionality
    ❱
    1. Introduction
    2. Support Functions
    3. Handling FEN-strings
    4. Moving Pieces
    5. Making and Unmaking moves
    6. Detecting the bishop pair
    7. Detecting cannot force mate
    8. Detecting draws by FIDE rules
  13. The Move Generator
    ❱
    1. Introduction
  15. Search
    ❱
    1. Introduction
    2. Move Ordering
      ❱
      1. The reason
      2. How it works
      3. MVV_LVA
      4. Killer moves heuristic
      5. TT-move ordering
  17. Evaluation
    ❱
    1. Understanding evaluation
    2. Material counting
    3. Piece-Square Tables
    4. The evaluation function
    5. Tapering the evaluation
  19. Communication
    ❱
    1. Introduction
    2. Comparison
    3. How it works
    4. Design
    5. Implementing IComm
    6. Implementing commands
  21. Engine
    ❱
    1. Introduction
  23. Progress
    ❱
    1. Playing Strength
    2. SPRT testing
    3. SPRT results
    4. Changelog
  25. Appendix
    ❱
    1. The binary system
    2. Bitwise operations
  27. On idiomatic Rust
  28. Building Rustic
  29. FAQ
  30. About me
  31. Further study
  32. Credits