My Chess Engine is a project where you can play a game of chess against another person, or my amateur chess engine Vinniebot, or watch it play itself!
My bot is built with a minimax algorithm using alpha-beta search for speed optimisation, with piece-square tables and material counting to evaluate positions, allowing it to calculate up to 3 moves ahead in a reasonable timeframe.
I also finally learned pygame GUI so yeah you don't have to play in the terminal anymore! Have fun :)))
me getting destroyed by my bot.
Download the exe from https://github.com/vincentchen18/chess-engine/releases/tag/v1 and run it to start playing!
I don't have a Mac to compile with PyInstaller, so just clone the repository and run the project with the following commands:
git clone https://github.com/vincentchen18/chess-engine/
pip install pygame to install dependency
python3 chess.py
I actually published this game to the snap store, so you can just open terminal and run this command:
sudo snap install vinniebot-chess
or from this link here: https://snapcraft.io/vinniebot-chess
Alternatively, download the linux binary from https://github.com/vincentchen18/chess-engine/releases/tag/v1 and run it with ./VinniebotChessLinux to play! :)
To move the pieces, it's just drag and drop, but it won't let you move if you try to make an illegal move. If you're moving a piece, right click to put the piece back where it was, and you can use the keys f or x to flip the board.
AI was used throughout the project for assistance in asset crediting, fixing file packaging problems and occasionally debugging. However all code was written and tested by me, and all assets were found by me.
Chess piece images by Colin M.L. Burnett, licensed under GPL/CC-BY-SA. Sourced via Lichess.
Crown icon by feen from Flaticon
½ icon by Freepik from Flaticon
Hashtag icon by Freepik from Flaticon