spooky_go 🎃👻

Rust and Python library for the game of Go.

Features

• Drive external engines with Go Text Protocol.
• Variable board sizes from 4x4 to 32x32.
• Relatively fast.
• Out-of-the-box support for DL/ML (action encoding and decoding methods).
• Consistent interface with spooky-chess and spooky-connect4.

Install

Rust

cargo add spooky_go

Python

uv add spooky-go

Includes type hints.

Develop

Tests

• fish run_tests.fish
  • fish run_python_tests.fish
  • fish run_rust_tests.fish

Lints

• fish run_lints.fish

Performance

• fish run_benchmark.fish

See Also

• spooky-chess
• spooky-connect4
• spooky-go

Type checking

Initialize the comparison-test dependency with git submodule update --init. Install development dependencies with uv sync --dev, then run uv run ty check. Type checking also runs as part of fish run_lints.fish.