Chess in C++

Description

This project has been started as a way for me to learn and practice C++ and OOP.

The end goal is to have a fully functional chess game with a GUI (for now I am focusing on game logic and for that making the game playable in the terminal is way easier, as I do not have any experience with GUIs in C++).

It is written in C++17 and will use most likely, the SFML library for the GUI.

Known Issues

• Castling implementation can be improved (check in King class), hard coded scenario that doesn't reflect the game

Roadmap

✅ - Done

🟡 - In progress

❌ - Not started

Overview

• ✅ Board creation and display in terminal
• ✅ Game logic (turns, etc.)
• ✅ Piece movement
• ✅ Game checks (check, checkmate, etc.)
• ❌ Game saving and loading
• ❌ Move logging
• ❌ GUI
• 🟡 AI <- Start of implementation (see AI Roadmap)

AI Roadmap

• ✅ Basic AI that moves a random piece
• ✅ AI that moves a random piece that doesn't put the king in check
• ✅ AI that moves a piece after evaluating the possible moves and choosing the best one (takes into account if the move puts opponent in check, if the move captures a piece, etc.)
• ❌ Moves based on value (e.g. currently the AI captures the first piece it encounters (if other checks fail))
• ❌ Moves that aren't worth it (e.g. capturing pawn with queen, then queen can be captured by another piece)
• 🟡 AI that can play a full game (bugs sometimes)