I. About

Fully functional chess program supporting the following features:

• All standard chess moves, checks, checkmates, pawn promotion, en passant, castling... etc.
• Both a text and a graphical interface.
• 3 game modes (human vs. human, human vs. computer, computer vs. computer)
  • and the following levels of computer difficulty:
    • level 1: random moves.
    • level 2: preference for placing the opposing king in check/checkmate and capturing pieces.
    • level 3: all of the above + a preference for avoiding capture (incomplete)
• A 'setup' mode, enabling players to manually place pieces at positions across the board
• Memory management handled via STD containers + smart pointers

II. Technical Details

• Object Oriented Programming
• MVC
• Observer pattern (pub-sub)

UML:

III. Execution and Dependencies

Requires: C++ 14 and X11.

Build and run:

make
./chess