hsChess

@ssoudan

This is a basic implementation of a chess playing program in Haskell.

Description

• based on a minimax with Alpha-Beta pruning AI
• UI is in reactive-banana-wx

Build instructions

You'll need to install reactive-banana-wx and wxhaskell. Once that is done, cabal build will do the rest and build a Mac OSX app in dist/build/hsChess.app/ with all the dependencies included.

TODO

• add manual strategy
• improve UX
• Mac packaging
• store the history in the State rather than the latest state (using DList)
• add castling moves
• web UI or GUI
• check detection and move selection
• mate detection
• show possible moves
• parallelize the evaluation of the options
• async computation of moves and push notification on completion
• enter moves with DnD
• split the current turn into each player turn so we can show the move of real player more quickly and pave the way to PvP
• show when the soft is busy computing a move and disable interactions
• stalemate detection
• test moves (shows best response moves of each player up to the horizon for a given option)
• non-linear game history with bookmarks
• pawn conversion
• save/restore games
• start from predefined states
• gamification: Achievements to learn chess

License

This program is distributed under APLv2. Check the LICENSE file for more details.