sukless-chess

This project has been deprecated! no futher development will occur. a new chess project is being started

The goal of this project is to provide a feature-rich yet minimalistic implementation of chess.

vcpkg is highly reccomended

1. install vcpkg and the relavent triplet

git clone https://github.com/microsoft/vcpkg

windows:
.\vcpkg\bootstrap-vcpkg.bat

MacOS and Linux
./vcpkg/bootstrap-vcpkg.sh

All platforms from here

./vcpkg install sdl2 sdl2-image sdl2-mixer --triplet <your-triplet>

./vcpkg integrate install

Build

 cmake -S . -B <your-build-folder> -DCMAKE_TOOLCHAIN_FILE=<path-to-vckpkg/scripts/buildsystems/vcpkg.cmake>
 cd <build-directory>
 make

Run

MacOS

cd <build-dir> ./chess

Windows

cd <build-dir> ./Debug/chess

*do your shells equivalent of the bash ./

Using Sukless-Chess

Features

1. To view move history, press the left and right arrow keys. *History does not persist across multiple games.