chess

🍣 Wasabi Chess Engine

Wasabi Chess is a web-based chess engine, written in AssemblyScript that runs directly in the Browser.

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The React web application embeds the engine using Web Workers to compute the AI moves in the background without blocking the main thread for the UI.

Features

• Chess engine implemented in AssemblyScript
• Computer opponent with 6 difficulty levels
• Opening Database for varied gameplay
• Move history to undo player moves
• Drag'n'Drop support to move chess pieces
• Touch support for mobile devices

Built With

• AssemblyScript - for the chess engine
• as-pect - to test the engine
• react - for the user interface
• react-dnd - for Drag and Drop support
• styled-components - to style React components in JS
• react-fontawesome - for some font icons
• workerize-loader - to load modules as Web Workers
• as-wasi - for WASI system calls (only for the standalone UCI engine)

License

This project is licensed under the GNU General Public License - see the LICENSE for details.

Attributions

• Images for the chess pieces come from Wikimedia Commons
• The opening book was generated from a selection of chess games from the FICS Games Database
• A set of 725000 test positions collected by the author of Zurichess was used to tune all evaluation parameters