A terribly made C++ program that uses SFML library. At first when I started programming, I've always wanted a "How to make Chess" tutorial. Unfortunately, Youtube got me nowhere. The closest I had was from Sebastian Lague. But what he made was a Chess AI, though, of course he walked everyone through how he made the chess game. But I'm not content

Credits

• Massively stolen code from Sebastian Lague
• Sounds and sprites taken from lichess

It's actually called plagiarize

Features

• Normal chess stuff
• Epic gamer code that can make your eyes explode (I hope not :)), feel free to suggest your epic improvements in issues, I'm open to hear them!)
• Idk

Why not use SDL

SDL = headache = big nono

Dependencies

• g++
• SFML library
• cmake
• make

How to compile

Simply run the following command (assuming you're on linux cuz fuck Microsoft)

cd build
cmake .. && make

Running

The texture will fail to load if you run it in the build directory, sorry :<. A way around that is to run it in the project directory instead

./build/cpp-chess

Change logs

Wednesday, 1st of December, 2021

• Added core mechanics

Saturday, 15th of January, 2022

• Code cleanup
• Fen support!
• Fix being able to thanos snap pieces by right clicking them
• Fix this dumb README.md

Tuesday, 25th of January, 2022

• Fixed this dumb README.md again
• Legal moves ! (But only for Rooks, Bishops, Queen, King)
• Code is messed up again xd
• Uh

Wednesday, 31st of August, 2022

• I can't seem to write a proper README.md file
• Complete development reset! It's been a while and I did not use that amount of time to waste ;)

Saturday, 3rd of September, 2022

• Fixed this README.md again (BRUH)
• Added drag and drop (very cool)
• School is coming back so I'm ded
• Yes

Monday, 5th of September, 2022

• School has came back and I'm ded inside
• Fixed this dumb README.md again (omg)
• Added legal moves for Rooks, Bishops and Queens ;)

Tuesday, 6th of September, 2022

• First day of school was alright
• I didn't have to fix README.md again woo
• Added legal moves for Knights ;)
• Added highlights for squares that the pieces move to
• Some other code improvements

Wednesday, 7th of September, 2022

• I lied, I had to fix README.md the SECOND I PUSH IT TO GIITAISADIOHDSPINDA
• Some fixes regarding includes since coc-nvim was being stupid and I didn't realize it
• Some comments cleanup
• Added legal moves for Kings!
• Added epic finite state machine for rendering and updating in preparation for legal moves for pawns
• Fuc

Friday, 23th of September, 2022

• School sucks

I even got the hottest new moves from the 15th century like double pawn pushes... and en passant

• Code cleanup and stuff teeheehehee (as per usual)
• Why am I always fking tired

Saturday, 24th of September, 2022

• I realized I totally butchered the square colors lmfao
• I also realized pawns can captures pieces of their same color, and I need to fix it to prevent pieces from having cannibalism (That'd be seriously bad)
• I also found out that en passant is completely broken due to the way I reset the en passant file data (Why is the pawn the most broken-ass piece in this entire game)
• Added castle moves! ;)
• Some clean up as usual (not much though xd)
• Yes

Saturday, 1st of October, 2022

• I did not fix the cannibalism, wtf
• Also messed up the promotion as well
• Some code cleanup (yet again, this time i added some comments (i think its a bit too much) idek)
• Changes to code that allow it to be reused later when filtering the psuedo legal moves later
• Pain and agony

Todos

• Stop being an idiot
• Fix this README.md because I know the second I commit and push it to Github I will find a typo
• h