OzubaChess

Ozuba Chess is a simple Chess Gui written in c++ using the SDL2 Graphics library, it currently supports the basic part of the Chess Ruleset:

• Only Legal Moves
• Turn Based Play
• Ilegal King-Exposing Moves

To be implemented:

• Support for FEN notation loading of game
• FEN output
• Argument for ip socket based online play
• Support for board turning(Whites/Blacks,Up/Down)
• Support for Game ending screen
• Tie detection
• Animations
• Click Based piece movement
• Hints of available moves on the board;
• Add sounds
• En Passant
• Castling

To Test

Installed required libs with your prefered package manager:

For Debian Based Systems:

sudo apt-get install libsdl2-dev libsdl-image-dev

Run:

make all
./chess

This will compile the example file.

Sources

Icons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Chess_Pieces_Sprite.svg