A simple and elegant chess GUI written in C++ with Centurion.

Make sure to execute git clone with the --recurse-submodules flag to install Centurion.

$ git clone --recurse-submodules https://github.com/larrabyte/bongcloud

Then, install fmtlib and SDL2 (along with its extension libraries) using your favourite package manager.

To compile, simply invoke the Makefile using make. If you're on Windows, try sacrificing one of your PC components to ensure good luck before attempting to compile using MSVC. I managed to get it working at one point but for some reason it just kept throwing linker errors and I just gave up after a while.

Bongcloud relies on the existence of a data folder to load the sprites for each piece. Each sprite should be in the form of a BMP file, with the prefix w for white pieces and b for black pieces.

• p corresponds to a pawn, eg. wp.bmp is the sprite for a white pawn.
• n corresponds to a knight, eg. bn.bmp is the sprite for a black knight.
• b corresponds to a bishop, eg. wb.bmp is the sprite for a white bishop.
• r corresponds to a rook, eg. br.bmp corresponds to a black rook.
• q corresponds to a queen, eg. wq.bmp corresponds to a white queen.
• k corresponds to a king, eg. bk.bmp corresponds to a black king.