leo.turato217

Hello my first devlog.
Not much to see here honsetly, but..
By the next devlog I will aim to have a ball bouncing on walls.
Bye

Hello,
I have been working on the checkmate, but it’s full of bugs.
I have added lots of new features for example:
Undo, Load (from a list of moves), castling, promotion

I am going to start work on the actual bot now because I am getting tired of the checkmate part; I will come back to fix it later.

Anyways for the bot, it will just have to rate, based on some factors, every possible move and then pick the one with the best score.
Each factor will have a weight which will make it more/ less important, as a bigger weight will affect the overall score of a move more than a smaller weight.

Here are some of the factors, with a brief explaination:

#mobitlity- how many possible moves the opponent can do
#pieces- the
#center space- how many pieces in the center
#space in enemy territory- how many spaces in the opponents side of the board can you pieces move to
#king check surround- how many spaces around the king are in check
#defence- how many of your pieces are defended
#attack- how many opponent pieces are your pieces attacking

Goodbye for now!

Ok, I’m back!!!
I know its been a long time since I last released a devlog but I have Made loads of progress!
Most of this time has been spent on the bishop movement (aprrox- 5 days)
It was so hard to get working and was driving me insane.

Eventually I made most of the basic moves for each piece, so they can all do their standard ones.
Although I haven’t yet implemented checks and special moves like en-passant or castling.
but we’ll get to those later

As you can see we are no longer just using plain-old ascii art I have upgraded the visuals and am now using html to render the chess board and python to play the actual game.

You might have noticed that the color scheme and the pieces look exactly like the ones on chess.com.
well I got the images of the pieces off the chess fandom:

https://chess.fandom.com/wiki/Knight

For the grid colors I just looked up standard chess board colors and that’s what came up.

After I get the other stuff sorted, I should be able to actually get started on the actual bot.

Anyway goodbye (for now)

devlog 2-
hello,

I finally created the chessboard, the main aspect of this project,
I was going to use pygame to display the board but It wouldn’t work when I tried to use it in github code spaces. Instead, I settled on using ascii art, and displayed the console.

Next up, I will add moves, checks, a way to win, and everything else that makes a chess game.
The next dev-log might take a while though, I think the system to track if the moves you make are legal, will take a while to make.

Note: If you use this, you might want to turn the character size down in the editor settings because otherwise it might not load properly.

I’m working on my first project! I have never built anything like this before, so this should be a learning experience. :)