New engine: Reyna

[rtarga]

Hi! Reyna is a UCI chess engine written in Rust that I made as a hobby. It is a traditional alpha-beta searcher with HCE.

https://github.com/renztarga/Reyna

I discovered computer chess back in 2007-2008 when I was a kid trying to cheat on Yahoo! chess and I have been interested ever since. Earlier this year, I decided to try and create my own engine for fun. I wrote it for about 6 months before my interest waned. Initially, my only goal was to defeat TSCP, and I would have been very happy. Now it can defeat Fruit 2.1, which was definitely not even in my sights when I started this project.

I hope to improve this in the future by adding ponder support, multi-thread support, and maybe even NNUE. Thanks for reading!

[Graham Banks]

Hi.

What is your approximate strength estimate at this stage?

[rtarga]

Hi.

What is your approximate strength estimate at this stage?

Probably around 2600-2700 based on my (definitely inadequate) testing. The longest time control I test with is 2+1.

[Gabor Szots]

I'm not a Rust expert but I think something is missing from the source package as cargo displays this message:
error: could not find `Cargo.toml` in `e:\Sakk\compiles\Reyna (Rust)\Reyna-1.0` or any parent directory

[rtarga]

I'm not a Rust expert but I think something is missing from the source package as cargo displays this message:
error: could not find `Cargo.toml` in `e:\Sakk\compiles\Reyna (Rust)\Reyna-1.0` or any parent directory

Thanks for letting me know. I have added Cargo.toml in the repository.

[Gabor Szots]

I'm not a Rust expert but I think something is missing from the source package as cargo displays this message:
error: could not find `Cargo.toml` in `e:\Sakk\compiles\Reyna (Rust)\Reyna-1.0` or any parent directory

Thanks for letting me know. I have added Cargo.toml in the repository.

The zip file under releases is still unchanged.

[rtarga]

I'm not a Rust expert but I think something is missing from the source package as cargo displays this message:
error: could not find `Cargo.toml` in `e:\Sakk\compiles\Reyna (Rust)\Reyna-1.0` or any parent directory

Thanks for letting me know. I have added Cargo.toml in the repository.

The zip file under releases is still unchanged.

It is now updated as well. Thanks!