🐉 Enkelagon Chess ♟️

Warning

This application currently only works on Windows platforms

A dragon-themed chess GUI with Stockfish integration, built with Java Swing.

✨ Features

• 🤖 Play against Stockfish - Choose to play as White, Black, or Random
• 🎚️ AI Difficulty Settings - Easy, Medium, Hard presets + advanced options (threads, hash, skill level, depth)
• 📊 Real-time Analysis - Engine evaluation bar and principal variation display
• 💡 Move Hints - Get suggested moves from Stockfish
• 📜 Move History - Algebraic notation with clickable moves
• 💾 Save/Load Games - PGN format with quicksave support
• 🌊 Animated Background - Dynamic particles and waves
• 🔮 Semi-transparent Board - See the animated background through the tiles

📸 Screenshots

📋 Requirements

• ☕ Java 17 or higher
• 📦 Maven 3.6+
• 🐟 Stockfish 17 (included in res/stockfish17/)

🔨 Building

# Clone the repository
git clone https://github.com/yourusername/enkelagon.git
cd enkelagon

# Build with Maven
mvn clean compile

🚀 Running

🪟 Windows

scripts\run.bat

🐧 Linux/macOS

chmod +x scripts/run.sh
scripts/run.sh

📦 Or with Maven directly

mvn exec:java -Dexec.mainClass="com.enkelagon.App"

⌨️ Controls

Action	Shortcut
🆕 New Game	Ctrl+N
📂 Load PGN	Ctrl+O
💾 Quicksave	Ctrl+S
💾 Save As	Ctrl+Shift+S
↩️ Undo Move	Ctrl+Z
🔄 Flip Board	Ctrl+F

🗂️ Project Structure

enkelagon/
├── src/main/java/com/enkelagon/
│   ├── App.java              # 🚀 Entry point
│   ├── config/               # ⚙️ Configuration management
│   ├── engine/               # 🐟 Stockfish integration
│   ├── logic/                # 🧠 Game logic, FEN/PGN parsing
│   ├── model/                # ♟️ Chess model (Board, Piece, Move, Game)
│   └── ui/                   # 🎨 Swing UI components
├── src/main/resources/       # 📁 Icons, settings
├── res/
│   ├── img/                  # 🖼️ Piece images
│   └── stockfish17/          # 🐟 Stockfish executable
└── scripts/                  # 📜 Build and run scripts

⚙️ Configuration

Settings are stored in src/main/resources/config/settings.json:

• 🎨 Theme colors
• 🔤 Font settings
• ♟️ Board preferences
• 🤖 Engine defaults

📄 License

• Code: MIT License - see LICENSE
• Chess Pieces: CC BY-SA 3.0 - from Green Chess, originally derived from Wikipedia

🙏 Acknowledgments

• 🐟 Stockfish - The powerful open-source chess engine
• 🎨 FlatLaf - Modern Swing look and feel
• ♟️ Green Chess - Chess piece images by Uray M. János

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