Solo Chess Solver

A lightweight, browser-based Solo Chess puzzle solver built with Rust and Dioxus.

Features

• Place pieces on an 8x8 board and clear them with right-click.
• Generate a capture sequence that leaves one piece.
• Review solutions step-by-step with visual cues.

How to use

1. Select a piece from the palette.
2. Click squares to place pieces; right-click to remove them.
3. Review the generated capture sequence below the board.

Development

Prerequisites

• Rust toolchain (stable).
• Optional: Dioxus CLI for web development.

Run locally (web)

dx serve

Build for production

dx build --release

Constraints

Solo Chess with at most two captures per piece is NP-complete¹. With memoization and other minor pruning strategies, solve time becomes noticeably longer with more than 15 pieces, but that is enough to solve all the puzzles from chess.com.

Footnotes

1. https://scale.iti.kit.edu/_media/resources/theses/ma_kolja_kuehn.pdf ↩