mintaka

(WIP) mintaka is a Renju engine written in Rust, currently in pre-alpha and under active development; mintaka features a Principal Variation Search core, a simple evaluation function for now, and plans to integrate an AlphaZero-based value and policy network.

Features

• Core Engine

  • Full Renju-rule implementation featuring strict forbidden move detection
  • Advanced tree search algorithm based on Principal Variation Search with a dedicated VCF solver
  • Lazy-SMP parallel processing for multithreaded search
  • Hardware acceleration with SIMD (AVX-512, AVX2, SSE2, Neon) and bit-manipulation (BMI2) instructions

• Interfaces

  • Web Interface: Solid.js frontend with REST API and Webassembly backend
  • Protocol Support: Piskvork(Gomocup), Yixin-board and GTP-like custom protocol
  • FFI Bindings: Java (JNI), WebAssembly (JavaScript/TypeScript)
  • REST api: axum server with session-persistent reload and TLS

• Planned

  • NNUE-based evaluation with separate networks for black/white pieces
  • Opening book support for early game optimization

Project Structure

rusty-renju

High-throughput Gomoku/Renju implementation with strict forbidden move detection

mintaka

Principal Variation Search (PVS) based engine core

mintaka-interface

Protocol adapters for Piskvork(Gomocup), Yixin-board and GTP-like CLI

mintaka-server

REST API provider with resource management and TLS

mintaka-webui

Solid.js-based web frontend

mintaka-wasm

WebAssembly bindings for JavaScript/TypeScript (wasm-bindgen)

rusty-renju-jni

Java Native Interface (JNI) bindings

rusty-renju-image

Utility library for generating board visualizations

mintaka-trainer

(WIP) Parameter optimization and machine learning pipeline for NNUE training