Description. A chess game written in Python 3.7. Includes a simple engine supporting alpha-beta-pruning, iterative deepening and quiescence searches. ASCII-based output is handled on the Python terminal.
Next steps. The castling and en passant-routines could probably be shortened and/or made more efficient, along with other improvements to the codebase. As far as completely new features like transposition tables go, I will probably reserve them for a translation to C++.
Command List:
- 'PQ XY' moves the piece on PQ to XY (e.g. e2 e4)
- 'undo' undoes the last move
- 'getmoves XY' displays all potential moves at XY
- 'getallmoves' displays all potential moves
- 'lastmove' displays the last move
- 'reset_board' fully resets the board
- 'engine_depth d' calls engine move at max. depth d
- 'engine_time t' calls engine move at max. allocated time t (seconds)
- 'engine_loop w b n' pits engines of max. alloc. time w and b against each other for n games
- 'engine_quiescence x' sets quiescence limit to x (default: 2)
- 'switch' alternates between coloured/black and white output (use if colour is not supported)
Output option 1 (colored):
Output option 2 (black and white):
