MCV Chess

MCV Chess is a console-based chess program implemented using the Model-Controller-View (MCV) design pattern. This design pattern separates the chess program into three interconnected components to promote modularity and maintainability.

Features

• Console-based chess game with text-based interface.
• Support for playing a standard game of chess.
• Model-Controller-View architecture for organized code structure.
• Utilizes the fmt library for improved text formatting.
• Implements the gsl (Guidelines Support Library) for safer and more reliable code.

Building and Running

To build and run MCV Chess, follow these steps:

1. Clone or download this repository to your local machine.
2. Make sure you have the required dependencies (such as fmt and gsl) installed.
3. Open your terminal and navigate to the project directory.
4. Compile the source code using your preferred C++20 compiler, ensuring that the required dependencies are linked (if needed).
5. Run the program.

   ./MCV-chess

Usage

• Use the command-line interface to play chess, following standard chess rules.
• Make your moves by specifying the source and destination locations of your pieces in algebraic chess notation.

Contributing

MCV Chess is a personal project, and I do not actively accept contributions. However, you are welcome to fork the repository and use the code as a starting point for your own projects or experiments. Feel free to explore, modify, and extend the code to suit your needs.

Going forward

As is the nature of any project, there are near-infinite ways to expand it's scope. At time of writing, there are a number of smaller TODOs in the code. Some things I wish to do that are not covered by TODOs are:

1. Compile it for browser and have it run in the browser (using emscripten and WA)

• Write C++ code that uses OpenGL
• Emscripten translates OpenGL to WebGL (JavaScript)
• Emscripten compiles the rest of the C++ to WebAssembly (WASM)
• WASM + JavaScript is run by your browser