Feed move history and halfmove clock to the engine for repetition detection

- Track HalfmoveClock in GameState/ChessService (reset on captures and pawn moves)
- Emit the real halfmove clock in ToFen and add GameState.RepetitionHistory()
  (prior positions since the last irreversible move) in ChessEngineHelpers
- Pass that history through IChessEngine.GetBestMoveAsync to the native engine;
  Stockfish ignores it

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <[email protected]>
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Josh-Heaps
2026-06-08 18:59:10 -06:00
co-authored by Claude Opus 4.8
parent 5345427e0c
commit d87cea572f
7 changed files with 47 additions and 8 deletions
@@ -28,6 +28,7 @@ public class ChessService : IChessService
gameState.BlackCanCastleKingside = true;
gameState.BlackCanCastleQueenside = true;
gameState.EnPassantTarget = null;
gameState.HalfmoveClock = 0;
SetupBlackPieces(gameState);
SetupWhitePieces(gameState);
@@ -178,6 +179,7 @@ public class ChessService : IChessService
{
var oldPos = piece.Position;
var captured = gs.Board[targetPos.Row, targetPos.Col];
var isPawnMove = piece.Type == PieceType.Pawn; // captured before promotion can change Type
HandleEnPassantIfNeeded(gs, piece, targetPos, ref captured);
@@ -199,6 +201,9 @@ public class ChessService : IChessService
UpdateCastlingRights(gs, piece, oldPos);
// Reset the 50-move clock on captures and pawn moves (irreversible); else advance it.
gs.HalfmoveClock = (isPawnMove || captured != null) ? 0 : gs.HalfmoveClock + 1;
gs.CurrentPlayer = gs.CurrentPlayer == PieceColor.White
? PieceColor.Black
: PieceColor.White;