chess

A chess engine written in C

Getting Started

First, clone the repository with

$ git clone https://github.com/jonicho/chess

Compilation with optimizations for release

For compilation with optimizations for release compile with:

$ make

This compiles the whole project every time it is run. The compiled binary and object files will be in ./build/release/.

To clean all generated build files run

$ make clean

Compilation for development

To compile without optimizations and with debug symbols for development compile with:

$ make DEBUG=1

This only compiles files that changed. The compiled binary and object files will be in ./build/debug/.

To clean all generated build files run

$ make clean

Usage

To play a game against the computer, simply run:

$ ./build/chess play

or

$ ./build_release/chess play

depending on whether you compiled for release or development.

Enter your moves in pure coordinate notation.

Testing

To execute tests that test some parts of the implementation run

$ ./build/debug/chess test

or

$ ./build/release/chess test

depending on whether you compiled for release or development.