https://github.com/GervinFung/LibGDX-Chess-Game
A simple 2 player chess AI that implemented minimax & alpha-beta pruning & move-ordering & pawn structure analysis to fully optimise the AI with a proper FEN file format
I screwed up my previous chess game with bad design and without planning ahead
I decided to make a chess game because my pc do not have one
NOTE: Credit to Christos-Kouros for timer function
The workspace contains two folders by default, where:
src: the folder to maintain sourcesres: the folder to maintain resources like the imageslib: the folder to maintain external libraries like Guava
NOTE: The image dragged is a bit low quality as image of piece is added to cursor
| No. | Steps |
|---|---|
| 1. | Open Intellij Project.jar program in out/artifacts/Intellij_Project_jar |
| 2. | User can choose to play as white/black |
| 3. | User can choose white/black as AI |
| 4. | Or, user can watch AI play against itself |
| 5. | Once the game started, left press the piece you wish to move, drag and drop to the square you wish to place it |
| 6. | OR, right click the piece you wish to move, and right click again to the square you wish to place it |
| 7. | User can reset the timer if they wish to do so |
| 8. | The piece will move as user drag |
NOTE: if AI move is undo, press its piece so AI can move again
| No. | Features |
|---|---|
| 1. | Restart new game |
| 2. | Save game/ Load saved game |
| 3. | Exit game |
| 4. | Highlight legal moves |
| 5. | Show move history |
| 6. | Choose AI level from 1 to 5 |
| 7. | Show captured piece |
| 8. | Show AI thinking progress bar |
| 9. | Undo previous move |
| 10. | Multithread feature depends on the number of cores of a pc, the greater the better/faster AI can think |
| 11. | Flip board |
| 12. | Enabled/disable a timer (Credit to Christos-Kouros) |
