This is very cool and having stalemate is nice, however how much space would it take to implement the full ruleset?

As you write: not implemented: castling, en passant, promotion, repetition, 50-move rule - those are all required to call the game being played modern chess.

I could see an argument for skipping repetition and 50-move rule for tiny engines, but you do need castling, en pessant and promotion for pretty much any serious play.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_Chess fit in 4k and supported fuller ruleset in 1980 did it not?

So I would ask what is the smallest fully UCI (https://www.chessprogramming.org/UCI) compliant engine available currently?

This would be a fun goal to beat - make something tiny that supports full ruleset.

PS my first chess computer in early 1980s was this: https://www.ismenio.com/chess_fidelity_cc3.html - it also supported castling, en pessant, not sure about 50 move rule.

ToledoChess [0] has a few implementations of this in different languages. Some highlights:

2KB of JavaScript with castling, en passant, promotion, search and even a GUI

326 bytes of assembly, without the special rules

I don't think the author has a UCI-compliant one, but it should be easier than the GUI. There are forks of the JS one that might do it.

[0] https://nanochess.org/chess6.html