chess

This project offers an object-oriented API for handling chess games. This API supports:

• Classes for all components of a chess game:
  • Pieces (descendants of class Piece),
  • Position with all kinds of useful functions. Encapsulation is supported and inner data cannot be accessed and altered from client's code,
  • Players (descendants of class Player),
  • Limited (so far) support of non-standard chess variants – Fischer random chess and chess on board sizes other than the default.

This project was made for analytical purposes, to solve problems of the following sort:

• What is the expected outcome of a random chess game?
• What is the probability that a randomly chosen chess position is legal? check? checkmate?
• Generate mate-in-K chess problems, etc.

TODO list:

• Optimization of several functions and tools within the API, so that algorithms that rely on depth-first search of the game tree would work faster,
• Enable full support of non-standard chess variants,
• Create several chess engines with various styles of play and track their performance against each other, etc.