https://github.com/indiecodermm/chess-gui

2-player Chess game in a beautiful GUI with legal moves highlighting. Created using Python Chess & PySimpleGUI.
https://github.com/indiecodermm/chess-gui

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2-player Chess game in a beautiful GUI with legal moves highlighting. Created using Python Chess & PySimpleGUI.

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/indiecodermm/chess-gui
• Owner: IndieCoderMM
• Created: 2022-07-23T16:32:25.000Z (over 2 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2022-12-18T05:55:01.000Z (about 2 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2023-03-11T00:11:32.373Z (almost 2 years ago)
• Topics: chess, chess-gui, pysimplegui, python
• Language: Python
• Homepage:
• Size: 1.13 MB
• Stars: 12
• Watchers: 1
• Forks: 0
• Open Issues: 1
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.md

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# ♟ Simple Chess GUI

A simple, user-friendly chess graphical user interface (GUI) built using [PySimpleGUI](https://www.pysimplegui.org/en/latest/).



  





## 🎨 Features

- Play against a friend

- User-friendly, intuitive interface

- Legal moves highlighter

- All chess moves are available:

	- Castling | Pawn Promotion | En passant

## ⚙ Tools

- [Python Chess](https://python-chess.readthedocs.io/en/latest/): Move generations and validations are made using this powerful chess library

- [PySimpleGUI](https://www.pysimplegui.org/en/latest/): Beautiful GUI is created within a few lines of code by the help of this amazing library 

## 🐍 Requirements

- Python 3.9 or higher

## 💡 Gameplay

- To start a new game, click on the **New Game** button.

- To make a move, click on the piece you want to move 

- Board will automatically highlight all the legal moves for the selected piece

- Click on the highlighted square and the move will be made

- The king will be highlighted in red if in check.

- Game will end in one of the following conditions: 

	1. Checkmate

	2. Stalemate

	3. Insufficient materials

## 🤩 Starcatcher

If you like this project, you can support me by giving a ⭐.

## 👨‍🚀 Contact

- GitHub: [@IndieCoderMM](https://github.com/indiecodermm/)

- Email: [email protected]

- LinkedIn: [@hthantoo](https://linkedin.com/in/hthantoo/)

## 🏗 Contributions

Contributions are welcome! If you have any ideas for new features or improvements, please open an issue or submit a pull request.

## 📜 License

This project is licensed under the [MIT](MIT.md) License.