Minichess software with different players, designed to connect to minichess server https://github.com/BartMassey/IMCS
more information on minichess and the rules can be found here: http://wiki.cs.pdx.edu/minichess/
currently supports several players including, random, negamax of arbitrary depth (0 depth is a simple heuristic player) with support for alpha-beta pruning, as well as a timed iterativly deepening player that also uses negamax with alpha-beta. most options are set at launch via flags, the available flags are as follow:
-s < SERVER > < PORT >
set the server and port to connect to for netowrked games. defaulted to current live server.
-u < USERNAME >
sets username to use for login. must be registered on the server before use. default is currently mine during devlopment.
-p < PASSWORD >
password to use for login. you can't have mine, get your own.
-t < PLAYER_TYPE >
sets the type of player to use. this value is used for online games, and is also the type of player 1 in local games.
available player types are:
0: time limited, iterative deepening, alpha-beta negamax player (currently hard-coded to 5 minutes provided as default on the server.)
1: fixed depth, alpha-beta negamax player. depth can be set via -d and -f flags found below, default is 6.
2: fixed depth, negamax player using only win pruning. depth as above.
3: random player. selects a random move from all available.
-2 < PLAYER2_TYPE >
sets the game to a local match between to players without connecting to a server. any server related values will be ignored if this is set.
also accepts the type of player that player 2 will be. see above for selection.
-w
sets player 1 to be the white player and player 2 to be the black player.
-b
opposite of above, sets player 1 to black and player 2 to white.
-a < GAME_ID >
accepts the given game ID. player side will be set automatically as needed.
-o
offers a game on the sever. this is the default behavior. desired color can be set by -b and -w flags found above. if not set, game will be offered as either color.
-d < WHITE_DEPTH >
sets the desired depth for the white palyer if they are using a fixed depth type player, ignored otherwise.
note: this is NOT for player 1, but for the white player, whichever that is. if -f is not used, this sets the depth for both players.
default is 6; >10 is not advised for any player, and lower is reccomended without alpha-beta.
-f < BLACK_DEPTH >
sets the depth for the black player. if this flag is not used, the value will match that of the white player. see -d for more.
-h < TABLE_SIZE >
sets the iterative player to use the transposition table
<TABLE_SIZE> is the size of the table to use, as a power of 2. (2^<TABLE_SIZE>=table entries)
~19-21 loosely reccomended, supports sizes from 0(2^0) to 32(2^32).
the value will be ignored if a serealized table is found to initialize the table.
-: < TIME >
sets the time in seconds available to each player; only used by iterative player