A playable chess game with AI Bots made with Python. GUI with pygame and features usage of FEN notation to play any position. Made on Pycharm Community Edition. Python Interpreter: 3.10 Made by Akshay as a hobby project to understand working with python and to learn the usage of efficient data structures and algorithms to quickly find best possible moves by the AI bot.
- Basic moves of pieces
- Special rules like castling and enpassant and promotion of pawn on the back rank
- Playable GUI with pygame
- Checking of game states such as checkmate, stalemate etc.
- AI
- Evaluation function - To evaluate a given position and find how favourable it is to white or black
- Loop through all possible moves and use evaluation function to find the best move
- Implement alpha beta pruning to make the algorithm faster
- Timers
- More GUI to display information
- Changes to GUI to display previous moves, display differently the square of a capture move.
- GUI resolution and scaling