ychess

Attention: The Chess engine is not finished yet.

ychess is a chess implementation and engine written in nim.

Usage

Simply download the code and run nim c -r game.nim. You can now play a 1v1 hotseat game of chess in the commandline.

Testing

Testing is done by einheit by jyapayne. All legal chess moves are implemented in chess.nim and tested by the TestSuite in test.nim. You can simply run the tests with nim c -r test.nim.

Documentation

Documentation is written into the code via DocGen. For this reason it is not saved in this repository. To extract it into html run nim doc --project --index:on --outdir:htmldocs game.nim

Board Representation

Due to easier off the board checking a 10x12 board is used.

Engine

The engine uses a simple implementation of the Minimax-algorithm.