GervinFung / LibGDX-Chess-Game

A LibGDX based Parallel AI Chess Game playable on many devices from Level 1 to Level 10

A simple 2 player chess AI that implemented minimax & alpha-beta pruning & move-ordering & pawn structure analysis to fully optimise the AI It's cross-platform as well, unfortunately it cannot run on web as it is a multithreaded program

NOTE: Can't create ipa for ios since I am not using macOS...

Apparently a minimum of Android API Level of 24 or Android 7.0 Nougat is required to use Stream API However, it appears that there is also a library that desugar Stream API syntax thus a lower android version can be used

To generate executable, open the terminal and do the following

1. Desktop: ./gradlew desktop:dist. The generated JAR file will be located in the desktop/build/libs/ folder
2. Android: ./gradlew android:assembleRelease. This will create an unsigned APK file in the android/build/outputs/apk folder
3. iOS: ./gradlew ios:createIPA. This will create an IPA in the ios/build/robovm folder

Visit https://github.com/libgdx/libgdx/wiki/Deploying-your-application for more info

Folder Structure

The workspace contains two folders by default, where:

• core: the folder to maintain sources, stores the code for chess engine logic and UI design
• asset/resource: the folder that store textures, skin and font for the UI
• platformExe: the folder that contains each platform's executable file

To play the Game

No.	Steps
1.	User can choose to play as white/black
2.	User can choose white/black as AI
3.	Or, user can watch AI play against itself
4.	Once the game started, left click the piece you wish to move, and click the square you wish to place it
5.	User can reset timer if they wish to start a new game

Game Features

No.	Features
1.	Restart new game
2.	Save game/ Load saved game
3.	Exit to menu screen
4.	Highlight legal moves
5.	Show move history
6.	Choose AI level from 1 to 10
7.	Show captured piece
8.	Undo previous move
9.	Multithreaded feature depends on the number of cores of a pc, the greater the better/faster AI can think
10.	Flip board
11.	Choose 6 different board colors
12.	Pause timer
13.	Show AI thinking progress bar
14.	Show menu and about screen

Welcome Screen About Screen Game Screen