A python program to play chess against an AI in the terminal.
##Installation
Requires Python 3, run the following to install :
pip3 install cl-chess
##Usage
Run the following command after installation
chess
Type '?' to get help at any time during the game.
You'll be asked to choose between playing as white or black, and what depth you want the AI to search :
You can then make any (legal) move :
##Options
Instead of a move, you can input :
lto see every legal moverto make a random moveuto undo your last move
##Technical stuff
The AI is a simple brute-force AI with no pruning. It evaluates a given position by counting the value of the pieces for each side (pawn -> 1, knight/bishop -> 3, rook -> 5, queen -> 9). It will evaluate the tree of moves, and take the path that results in the greatest gain. To learn more, check out [my post on how it works] (http://blog.mbuffett.com/creating-a-basic-chess-ai-using-python/).