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ChessAI: can't keep track of King

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Assessment

Difficulty
3/5
Estimated time
1-2 days
Newbie friendliness
42/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
java
Domain
ai, game-dev

Research direction

Start at chess/ChessBoard.java:108, where the ClassCastException occurs, then trace the move through common/Board.java and common/TreeNode.java. Run common.GameAIMain to reproduce the failure and inspect how pieceFromTo handles the moving piece. Done means the AI simulation completes without this cast failure and the king remains trackable.

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Description

bug chessai

Exception in thread "main" java.lang.ClassCastException: chess.Knight cannot be cast to chess.King
at chess.ChessBoard.pieceFromTo(ChessBoard.java:108)
at common.Board.movePiece(Board.java:303)
at common.Board.movePiece(Board.java:286)
at common.Board.movePiece(Board.java:367)
at common.TreeNode.simulate(TreeNode.java:168)
at common.TreeNode.selectAction(TreeNode.java:90)
at common.GameAIMain.main(GameAIMain.java:20)

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Java
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