Chess

Table of Contents

1. About
2. Dependencies
3. Installation
4. Program Execution
5. GUI

About

A Python implementation of the chess board game using Tkinter as the graphics engine.

Dependencies

• Python
• tkinter
• tkinter.messagebox
• deque from collections
• Image and ImageTk from PIL - Pillow

Installation

• If Python is not installed an installer could be downloaded from: https://www.python.org/downloads/ Copy or Download the main Chess-py file to the location you wish to keep the program

• If one is not using Python 3.4 or greater, pip must be installed

  • For Windows
    • Download get-pip from: https://bootstrap.pypa.io/3.2/get-pip.py
    • Go to the download location and enter the following command into the command prompt: python get-pip.py
  • For Mac run the following command in the terminal: sudo easy_install pip
  • For Linux run one of the following commands based on the installed packet manager
    • apt: sudo apt-get install python3-pip
    • pacman: sudo pacman -S python-pip
    • yum: sudo yum install python3 python3-wheel

• Install Pillow via the command pip install Pillow

Program Execution

• Using the terminal or command prompt navigate to the Chess-py file
• Enter the following command into the terminal or command prompt: python3 Chess-main.py

GUI

Main Menu

Game Board

Authors

• Matthew Vastarelli
• Evan Perry