Chess Engine

Features

• Alpha-beta pruning
• Quiescence search
• Check extensions
• Zobrist hashing
• Custom opening book (generated from master games and lichess.org database)
• History heuristic table
• Transposition table

Commands

• drag piece: make move
• space bar: make computer move
• e: toggle edit mode
• s: flip board
• t: toggle check extensions
• left arrow key: undo move
• right arrow key: redo move
• hold right click: draw arrows
• left click anywhere: remove arrows

How to Run

• If you have Java 8 installed:

  java -jar out/artifacts/ChessEngine_jar/ChessEngine.jar

• If you have Homebrew but not Java 8:

  brew install openjdk@8
  /usr/local/opt/openjdk@8/bin/java -jar out/artifacts/ChessEngine_jar/ChessEngine.jar