readme.md

Chess Engine & Bots

This repository contains a chess engine written in Python. Adding tools to train bots to play chess is a work in progress.

Engine

The Chess Engine provides the following features:

• Physics of the chess board
• Legal move generation for all pieces.
• Check, checkmate, stalemate detection.
• The basic chess rules such as castling and pawn promotion are included.
• The chess rules not included yet are: en passant, 50 move rule, 3-fold repetition.

Pre-requisites

• Python 3.10 or higher.
• numpy and other packages listed in requirements.txt

Usage

A chess game can be initialized as follows:

from engine import Game

game = Game()
print(game.board)
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