PyChessBot

PyChessBot is a chess bot written in Python for Windows only.

Disclaimer

• I do NOT endorse any sort of cheating. This program should be used for educational purposes only, or against offline bots.

Installing

• Clone the repository or download the zip file from GitHub

• Install dependencies:

    pip install -r requirements.txt
  

• Download a chess engine of your choice | Stockfish 13

• Extract the zip, and create a folder called "bin" in the root program folder

• Rename the engine executable to "engine.exe"

• Place the renamed executable in the "bin" folder

• Run the program:

    cd PyChessBot
    python main.py
  

  Or alternatively double click start.bat

Usage

• Toggle between play as white and play as black mode
• Select the boundaries of the board on the screen by long clicking the top-left corner until indicated by the message box, and repeat for the bottom-right corner.
• The bot will start playing after the start button is pressed
• Click on the CTRL key to pause the bot

Notes

• Do NOT move the mouse while the bot is playing, or move any window over the board.
• Make the colors of the board different from the colors of the pieces
• If you can, turn off piece animations
• The sliders currently don't work yet
• The bot assumes that the opponent always promotes to a queen, so it WILL malfunction if they promote to something else
• The bot can promote to other pieces, but only on chess.com and lichess.org

Citation

Logo Sources:

• Python Logo
• Chess Pawn