leo.turato217

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. :)