Description

This is a work in progress chess game written in C++ using SFML.

Feature TODO Checklist

• Blank board render
• Rendering pieces
• Forsyth-Edwards Notation support to load board states
• Working Pieces
• Pseudolegal movement
• Option to enable and disable algebraic notation on the board
• Special moves (castling & en pessant)
• Legal move logic
• Auto flip board option for local games
• Customization (piece sets & board colors)
• Ability to export games
• Ability to import games to review them (No Eval)
• Clock
• Simple online multiplayer (p2p)
• Stockfish integration to play vs the computer
• Different AI difficulties

Screenshots

Dependencies

• SFML 2.5.1 (Included)
• Premake 5 (For project setup only - Included)

Changelog

15/Feb/2023

• Separated Board logic into BoardEngine, BoardRenderer and BoardInterface
• Added support to load board states via FEN strings
• Last position cache is now used
• BoardRenderer can now draw text on 5 different positions of a cell (center, top-left, top-right, bottom-left, bottom-right)
• BoardRenderer now has the option to draw the file and rank coordinates
• Added App Icon

16/Feb/2023

• Pieces are now able to be grabbed and moved
• Pieces can't take pieces of the same color
• BoardRenderer can now draw pieces in places not aligned to the grid
• Implemented methods for Piece that allow to check if a piece is empty/null and to reset them
• BoardEngine now has the option to fetch a piece at a specific square

v0.1.0

• Introducing Semantic Versioning! From now on, all updates will be labeled using semantic versioning instead of dates
• Pieces now move using pseudo-legal moves (this doesn't include any special moves)
• BoardEngine now has two ways of representing the board: the original 64 piece array and a 2D piece array
• BoardRenderer now has the ability to hide pieces, this was added so that BoardInterface hides the piece instead of deleting it while holding a piece
• BoardEngine now uses int8_t instead of uint8_t for piece indices

v0.2.0

• Reworked the whole project structure
• Repository now includes a premake file instead of Visual Studio files
• All dependencies are now included under /vendor
• .gitignore now ignores Visual Studio files

v0.2.1

• Fixed premake5 binary not being included by git

v0.2.2

• Added images to README.md
• Renamed GenerateProjects.bat to Generate-VS2022.bat