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ChessVar

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A desktop chess app that lets you play offline against friends or AI bots in multiple chess variants. Built with Python and Qt for Windows and Linux.

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Jimi

Progress:

  • Working sidebar
  • Game history
  • Exporting game as FEN or PGN
  • Drawing arrows and highlighting squares on board for better calculations
    Thoughts:
    I think the end is near.
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Jimi

Progress:

  • Player vs Player mode
  • move indicator
  • choosing bot level
  • minor changes, bug fixes
    Thoughts:
    It’s going great. I’m getting better at python and pyside6.
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Jimi

Progress:

  • Finished all chess rules(castle, en passant, and others)
  • Added option to play against a bot
  • Improvments in provious code (it wasn’t scalable)
    Thoughts:
    It’s hard, but I hope I can finish this project.
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Jimi

Progress:

  • Generating figures
  • Moving figures
  • Improving backend
  • Sketch of the sidebar on the right
    Thoughts:
    Maybe making UI is not that hard.
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Jimi

Progress:

  • basic game mechanic using python-chess
  • generating chess board
    Thoughts:
    I’m trying to learn Qt doing this project, but it isn’t going great.
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