C-Chess

[Work in progress]

ASCII Chess game in pure C

Compatible with UNIX-based OS, but only tested on Mac so far.

Build

Make

  cd src
  chmod 711 make
  ./make

Run

  ./chess-b [args]

Arguments

1 args

  ./chess-b 5

Run perft(5) (count leaf nodes of game tree up to 5 ply)

2 args

  ./chess-b [PLAYER-1] [PLAYER-2]

Start a game, with AI players using default settings

• 0: Human player
• 1: Fixed depth alpha-beta AI
• 2: Iterative deepening AI (recommended)
• 3: Quick-and-dirty minimax AI

4 args

  ./chess-b [PLAYER-1] [PLAYER-2] [DEPTH] [EXTENSION]

Same as 2 args, but specifies depth of search and maximum extension depth for forcing lines.