Implementing a Checkers rival

You will learn how to extend the previous recipes with an advanced example. In this case, you will learn how to model a Checkers (draughts) board and its pieces to comply with the necessary functions to be used with our board-AI framework.

This approach uses a chess board (of the size 8 x 8) and its respective number of pieces (12). However, it can be easily parameterized to change these values if we want to have a different-sized board.

Getting ready...

First, we need to create a new type of movement for this particular case called MoveDraughts:

using UnityEngine; 
using System.Collections; 
 
public class MoveDraughts : Move 
{ 
    public PieceDraughts piece; 
    public int x; 
    public int y; 
    public bool success; 
    public int removeX; 
    public int removeY; 
} 

This data structure stores the piece to be moved, the new x and y coordinates if the movement is a successful capture, and the position of the piece to be removed.

How to do it...

We will implement...