A simple chess bot for Discord in a messy early alpha state.
Start the bot by launching chessbot.py after defining the environment variable DISCORD_TOKEN, either directly in your environment or in a .env file.
Challenge another player to a game by sending the message !chess challenge @user {mode} in any channel where the bot is invited. @user should be a mention of another user in the server, and replace {mode} with one of the three available modes: aswhite to play as white, asblack to play as black and asrandom to flip a coin on which color to play. Respond accept to the resulting challenge message to start a game.
Play a move by responding to the resulting game board posted by the bot. Moves are written in UCI format, such as a2a4 to move a piece from square A2 to square A4.
In place of a move you can also respond resign to resign the game, or draw? to offer a draw. Respond accept to the resulting draw offer to end the game in a draw.
- Buttons for more intuitive interactions when accepting challenges, draws or resignations.
- Slash command in place of !chess token
- Stockfish integration
- Cleaner separation between Discord callbacks and game logic
- Multi-round matches
Python 3.7+withsqlite3cairosvg- Various Python dependencies specified in the file
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