Chess Engine
A chess engine written in Python with no dependencies. All contributions welcome.
Note
This project is in active development and you may encounter bugs, especially in the game loop.
Contribution Guide
The contribution guide can be found on the documentation page
Features
- Internal bitboard representation
- Alpha-beta pruned search
- Move generation API
- Opening book
TODOs
- Move ordering for faster forward search
- Non-trivial board state evaluation using better heuristics
Usage
Install using pip
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# macOS / Linux (could work on Windows)
python3 -m pip install -U chessengine
# Windows (the primary way)
py -3 -m pip install -U chessengine
Start a game -
python -m chessengine.play
Developer Notes
This project uses the black linter for determining code style.
# Install black via pip.
python -m pip install black
# Do the lint!
python -m black --check --verbose .