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+# Jupiter
+Simple chess engine written in Java. (Work in progress)
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+## Features
+- Alpha-Beta pruning optimization
+- Transposition table position saving
+- Move ordering optimizations
+- Iterative deepening
+- Quiescence search
+
+## Running
+Requires an installation of JDK-21.
+
+By default, engine thinks for 1 second before attempting to make a move.
+
+## Known Bugs
+This project is a work-in-progress so these bugs may or may not be fixed.
+- Transposition table size is uncapped
+- Engine can sometimes move the player's pieces
+- Player's king can sometimes be moved into illegal squares
+
+## TODO
+- Implement checkmates, draws
+- Display player's moves immediately in GUI
+- Fix windows DPI scaling problems with sprites
+- Improve engine's endgame performance
+- Optimize: history heuristic, killer moves, pawn position evaluation, futility pruning
+- Implement multithreaded move search
+- Ensure that search is stopped after time limit is reached
+
+## Screenshots
+![Screenshot 2024-12-20 014551](https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/49d0751e-ca2f-4777-a1f0-f6982b322109)
+![Screenshot 2024-12-20 014826](https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/64708562-02ed-48bd-a771-c923e1336437)