Chess Engine

Overview

This project implements a chess engine in C++ and offers a GUI to allow the user to play against the engine.

Features

• Chess Engine: The core of the project is a powerful chess engine that implements various algorithms and strategies for playing chess.

• Graphical User Interface: Features a GUI, eliminating the need to play through a command-line interface.

• Legal Move Generation: Generates and displays all legal moves in a given position, and ensures all player moves are legal. Accounts for special moves such as castling, promotions, and en passant.

• Checkmate and Stalemate Detection: Detects a win or draw when one side runs out of legal moves.

How to Use

1. Installation: Clone the repository to your local machine.
2. Dependencies: Ensure you have SFML installed on your machine. This library is used to create the GUI.
3. Adjust Screen Size: Before running the GUI, you can adjust the screen size by modifying the WINDOW_SIZE variable in gui.cpp.
4. Running the GUI: You can launch the GUI by running the make run command from the root directory.
5. Running the Perft Test: To run the Perft test, use the command make perft DEPTH={depth} where {depth} is the desired depth. For example, make perft DEPTH=5 will run the Perft test to a depth of 5.

License

This project is licensed under the MIT License.