Stoopid Chess is a chess playing program with a GUI which allows you to play against the computer. It's written in C# and plays with reasonable game strength.

Features

  • Intuitive, attractive GUI
  • 5 levels of play (from almost instantaneous to approx 1 minute / move)
  • Save / load game
  • Unlimited move undo
  • Play a reasonably strong, fun game of chess
  • Positional editing
  • You may switch sides or change playing strength during a game
  • Dynamically re-sizable board, capture bins and move lists
  • 0x88 board format incl occupancy sets by piece type and color
  • Alpha-beta and quiescence searches
  • Replace by depth and always replace transposition tables
  • Moves sorted by transposition entry, killer heuristic, MVV / LVA etc.
  • Iterative deepening
  • Separate pawn structure and in check hash tables
  • Support for draw by repetition, 50 moves rule, insufficient material etc.
  • (hopefully) easy to understand object model and source code
  • Runs on .NET 2.0 & MONO

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License

GNU General Public License version 2.0 (GPLv2)

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Additional Project Details

Operating Systems

Windows

Intended Audience

End Users/Desktop

User Interface

.NET/Mono

Programming Language

C#

Related Categories

C# Board Games, C# Turn Based Strategy Game, C# Chess Games

Registered

2009-12-15