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Blind Chess also known as "Dark Chess" (暗棋) or "Banqi" or Half Chess , is a two-player Chinese board game played on a 4x8 grid, or half of the xiangqi (Chinese Chess) board. This application is using Taiwan rule with basic minimax tree structure and some rules. Advanced algorithm such as Alpha-Beta Pruning, Upper Confidence bounds applied to Trees and Monte Carlo Tree Search are not used.
For English user, Christakis Giorgios made Software Requirements Specification(pdf file), it will help anyone that downloads this application to understand basic blind chess and use it. You can download this pdf in Files->Specification folder.
