pouetChess is a graphic chess game created for Linux and ported to Windows (thanks to SDL and openGL)

It uses FAILE [http://faile.sourceforge.net] as an embedded engine for AI (up to 2250 ELO, even more, depending on your computer)

SDL

SDL-image

OpenGL (ie: latest drivers from your graphic card manufacturer)

Left mouse click : Select a case on the chessboard

Right mouse click : move the camera around the chessboard

Escape : return to main menu

Note : you should not have to modify the configuration file manually since you have an in-game option menu to do that !

Linux/*BSD : See .pouetChess in the user's home directory

Windows : Config.ini in the same directory as the executable

pouetChess uses the Scons build system. So if you want to compile from source you will need it.

To build pouetChess you have to configure first : pip install semver && scons configure

To know all the options, you can do scons --help

Once configure is done, you can run scons to build pouetChess.

Then you can install pouetChess by scons install

IMPORTANT: if you want to run pouetChess without installing it, you will have to add noinstall=yes to the configure option ! (eg: scons configure noinstall=yes)

Then you'll be able to launch pouetChess directly from the bin folder.

NOTE: In the 0.2.0 version, it seems that using -O2 option with gcc 4.0.2 create a broken executable (because AI segFault when thinking)

This doesn't seem to appear when compiling with -O1. So default optimization level is set to 1.

If you have an other version of GCC and want to see if this bug occurs with -O2 you can change optimization level to 2 with scons configure optimize=2

And If you don't want to optimize at all: scons configure optimize=no