https://github.com/venil7/reason-chess

chess library in reason for cross platform game dev
https://github.com/venil7/reason-chess

alpha-beta-pruning chess-engine game-development game-engine minimax ocaml reasonml

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chess library in reason for cross platform game dev

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/venil7/reason-chess
• Owner: venil7
• Created: 2018-02-24T15:36:06.000Z (over 6 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2018-03-30T13:55:49.000Z (over 6 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-03-30T03:02:10.809Z (3 months ago)
• Topics: alpha-beta-pruning, chess-engine, game-development, game-engine, minimax, ocaml, reasonml
• Language: OCaml
• Homepage: http://darkruby.co.uk/reason-chess/
• Size: 1020 KB
• Stars: 21
• Watchers: 2
• Forks: 2
• Open Issues: 2
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.md

Lists

• awesome-reasonml - reason-chess - Chess engine for multiple platforms and web example chess game. [(demo)](http://darkruby.co.uk/reason-chess/) (Reason / Example Apps)
• awesome-reasonml - reason-chess - Chess engine for multiple platforms and web example chess game. [(demo)](http://darkruby.co.uk/reason-chess/) (Reason / Example Apps)

README

        
# reason-chess

## Build

[![Build Status](https://travis-ci.org/venil7/reason-chess.svg?branch=master)](https://travis-ci.org/venil7/reason-chess)

`reason-chess` is a chess engine for `ReasonML`. Use it for game development, chess analysis tools, etc in the browser, nodejs, native or in the mobile application. Engine features include:

 - minimax algorithm with variable depth tree evaluation

 - alphabeta pruning for faster evaluation

 - hints for possible moves

 - switching sides

 - full move history

 - full capture history

 - time travel and undo

 - almost 100% unit test converage

Browse [Example source](./example/) or try it in the [browser](http://darkruby.co.uk/reason-chess/)

*example gameplay*

![chess-gameplay](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/508022/38139938-8d1b91ec-3429-11e8-8959-f3159714ea11.gif)

## build locally

```

npm run build

```

## Install

```

npm install reason-chess --save

```

### Update `bsconfig.json`

```

...

"bs-dependencies": [

    "reason-chess"

]

...

```

## Run [Example](./example/)

```

cd example

npm install

npm start

```

## Run Tests

```

npm run test

```