sgheidi/PyChess

♚ Full-featured chess (with AI) in Python

♚ PyChess

Full-featured Chess game written using Python.

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How to play

To set up: clone repo & run pip install -r requirements.txt To run: run py chess.py.

Features

• Chess AI which uses minimax & alpha-beta pruning to search the game tree and find the best move (current AI ELO is around ~1000 because of the weak eval function)
• Player vs. Player, Player vs. AI, even AI vs. AI!
• Pinning pieces
• Checking, checkmating
• En passant
• Castling
• Pawn promotion
• Movement animation
• Draw by:
  • Stalemate
  • Insufficient material
  • 3-fold repetition
  • 50-move rule

Command-line switches

Default playing mode is Player vs. Player. To play a different mode (vs. AI), use the following switches:

• --black to play as Black.
• --white to play as White.
• --ai-vs-ai to watch 2 AI's battle it out!

Bonus: AI vs. itself

(AI evaluation functions in progress)