Overview

Welcome to my chess engine project. This project was developed as part of my MSc in Computer Science. The purpose of the engine is to simulate a chess game when provided with a series of moves. ChessMain.cpp shows an example game - the format of each move is given in long form notation (e.g. "A7H6" describes moving a piece from A7 to H6)

Simple Usage

To run the chess program

1. Clone this repository
2. Enter this directory and make the relative files
3. run ./bin/chess

The program should run the chess game provided by ChessMain.cpp in the terminal. An example output is shown below:

Example Output

Making your own Chess Game

I have added a python script that will allow you to create the scripts for your own chess game that you find on chess.com.

To run your own game do the following:

1. Go to chess.com and find a game that you wish to run
2. Download the respective pgn file for the game
3. Place the .pgn file in the ./Documents/InputPGNs/ folder, ensure that all white spaces are removed from the name
4. Run the ./generate_games/ChessScriptWriter.py with any version of python (no non-core librarys required). A text file will be created in ./Documents/OutputMoveScripts/ corresponding to your input.
5. Copy the contents fo the text file into ChessMain.cpp so it replaces the currrent chessboard script

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