Recently, I have grown interest in artificial intelligence and I decided to make my senior capstone related to it. For my capstone, I decided to develop a chess game that would allow a user to play against the computer. In the fall of 2015, I researched about how to develop the program and learned about the mathematics beyond developing the AI. After the research, I decided about the features that version one will include. In the beginning of spring semester, I started on the development of the program. First, I used the whiteboards in the classroom to brainstorm. Then using a program called Dia, I designed diagrams that would allow me to easily start coding. Next, I started coding the program and at the end of the semester, I had an almost
