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f005d94fc2 [bitboard, board, core, moves] Implement SliderMoveGenerator
This generator produces moves for slider pieces: bishops, rooks, and queens. All
of these pieces behave identically, though with different sets of rays that
emanate from the origin square. Claude helped me significantly with the
implementation and unit testing. All the unit tests that took advantage of Claude
for implementation are marked as such with an _ai_claude suffix to the test name.

One unique aspect of this move generator that Claude suggested to me was to use
loop { } instead of a recursive call to next() when the internal iterators expire.
I may try to port this to the other move generators in the future.

To support this move generator, implement a Slider enum in core that represents
one of the three slider pieces.

Add Board::bishops(), Board::rooks() and Board::queens() to return BitBoards of
those pieces. These are analogous to the pawns() and knights() methods that return
their corresponding pieces.

Also in the board create, replace the separate sight method implementations with
a macro. These are all the same, but with a different sight method called under
the hood.

Finally, derive Clone and Debug for the bit_scanner types.
2025-05-26 17:41:43 -07:00
0c1863acb9 [board, core, moves, position] Implement castling
Implement a new method on Position that evaluates whether the active color can castle
on a given wing of the board. Then, implement making a castling move in the position.

Make a new Wing enum in the core crate to specify kingside or queenside. Replace the
Castle enum from the board crate with this one. This caused a lot of churn...

Along the way fix a bunch of tests.

Note: there's still no way to actually make a castling move in explorer.
2025-05-19 16:50:30 -07:00
9010f1e9c2 [explorer, moves, core] Improve error handling in explorer
Implement thiserror::Error for a bunch of error types, and remove string errors
from the implementation of the command handler in explorer.

Clean up parsing of basic types all over the place.

Update Cargo files to include thiserror and anyhow.
2025-05-19 14:18:31 -07:00
8b2a3926b3 [core,board] Move board::piece to core
Break up types in core into finer grained modules.
Update all the imports.
2024-01-24 17:08:27 -08:00
eab30cc33b [core] Rename the directory chess_core → core
I think this is sufficient.
2024-01-24 08:33:07 -08:00
3c3a62345d [core] Rename core → chess_core 2024-01-24 08:29:16 -08:00
406631b617 [core] Move the contents of board::square to core::coordinates
Export Square, Rank, and File from the core crate.
2024-01-24 08:25:56 -08:00
7e08a9adc4 [core] Create a core crate 2024-01-24 08:24:59 -08:00