Rust-written chess engine Reckless to reach superfinal in top computer chess tournament

376 points ralfj 34 comments

I was surprised to not see this mentioned here yet so I had to make a post. :)

Reckless is currently competing with Stockfish in the superfinal (the last round with the top two engines) of TCEC, one of the most prestigious (if not the most prestigious) chess engine tournaments out there. Stockfish has won that final in the last N years and will win again this year, but this is still remarkable -- Reckless rose into the top rank of chess engines extremely quickly. To my knowledge it is the first engine not written in C or C++ that can compete at this level. See this article for some more context. A huge congrats to the team behind the engine, I'm very happy to see Rust showcased this way. Now even my dad believes me that Rust is a language worth taking seriously. :D

Also they seem to have had some compiler trouble recently that maybe we should look into. ;)