Cinder is an independent chess engine written in Rust from scratch. With a playing strength that is far superior to what humans are capable of, Cinder is primarily developed to play against other engines. It is regularly tested at the extremely short time control of 1s+10ms per game. The shorter the time control, the stronger Cinder tends to play.
Cinder implements the UCI protocol and should be compatible with most current
chess graphical user interfaces (GUI). Users who are familiar with the UCI protocol
may also interact with Cinder directly on a terminal via its command line interface (CLI).
In addition to the standard UCI commands, Cinder also implements a custom command eval
that prints Cinder's evaluation of the current position in its own internal units.
uci
id name Cinder
id author Bruno Dutra
option name Hash type spin default 16 min 0 max 33554432
option name Threads type spin default 1 min 1 max 65536
uciok
go depth 15
info score cp 20 pv g1f3 g8f6 d2d4 e7e6 c2c4 b7b6 a2a3 c8b7 b1c3 d7d5 c4d5 f6d5 c3d5 d8d5
bestmove g1f3
Cinder is an open source project and you're very welcome to contribute to this project by opening issues and/or pull requests, see CONTRIBUTING for general guidelines.
Building Cinder from source currently requires a recent nightly Rust compiler,
cargo-make, and cargo-pgo. To compile binaries optimized for various CPU architectures,
simply run cargo make --profile production cinder. The binary artifacts will be placed
under target/bin/.
Cinder is distributed under the terms of the GPL-3.0 license, see LICENSE for details.