A Checkers Game based on JavaFX
Checkers is a very popular game all over the world. The first attempts to build the first English draughts computer program were in the early 1950s. In this project, I have implemented an automated player for the game of checkers.
The game of checkers is considered a complicated game with 10^20 possible legal positions in the English draughts version (8 х 8 board) alone (much more on higher dimensions). My strategy is to build a Minimax algorithm based agent, along with potential changes, which is the state of the art in one-on-one games. We start with the implementation of a simple minimax player with a simple heuristic evaluation, and By introducing alpha-beta pruning and also, we enhance the pruning. The agent has been created which is capable of playing the game of draughts or checkers with a remarkable win rate against average players.
I choose Java Programming language for the implementation of this application because it is an Object-Oriented Language and it provides all necessary data structures required to implement a Checkers game. The MVC (Model-View-Controller) architectural pattern was used in the development of the software to separate the game logic from the Graphical Interface, thus making code easier to understand and maintain