backspace / chess

java chess (Winboard-powered, TDD-developed)

Goal

The chess software that is developed for fun.

Creator

Initial creator is Leonid Rozenblyum (the last name could also be spelled as Rozenblium according to Ukrainian transliteration rules)

Milestone

Main goals for version1 are:

• support Chess Engine Communication Protocol (http://home.hccnet.nl/h.g.muller/engine-intf.html) This protocol is one of de facto standards in communicating between a chess GUI and an engine. The well-known GUI implementations are XBoard/Winboard.

• Probably the fastest way to implement is to take into account the 'Minimal protocol' document http://home.hccnet.nl/h.g.muller/interfacing.txt

• know about all chess rules (including ambiguities with the 3'd position repetition and insufficient material)
• be able to choose at least random 'correct according to rules' move.

How to run

• Git clone
• Set up Winboard
• Modify variables.bat:
• Set up correct WINBOARD_INSTALLATION_PATH
• Set up correct JAVA_PATH

1. Default (recommended) way

2. mvn clean package -Dproject.deployDirectory="path to set up" (-DskipTests=true if you feel brave; avoid clean phase if your IDE has already compiled the code)

3. runEngine.bat

4. New way (requires M3_HOME variable set up)

5. runEngineDev.bat

Continuous Integration

Public continuous integration is accessible via https://travis-ci.org/lrozenblyum/chess/builds

Current status of master branch:

License

The license is described in LICENSE file. Please read it carefully before forking the repository.