https://github.com/triformine/py-chess-tk

A chess game written with python and Tkinter
https://github.com/triformine/py-chess-tk

chess chess-game python3 tkinter

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A chess game written with python and Tkinter

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/triformine/py-chess-tk
• Owner: TriForMine
• License: apache-2.0
• Created: 2022-04-04T10:51:28.000Z (about 4 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2022-04-11T09:11:26.000Z (about 4 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-05-01T17:32:59.842Z (about 2 years ago)
• Topics: chess, chess-game, python3, tkinter
• Language: Python
• Homepage:
• Size: 551 KB
• Stars: 1
• Watchers: 1
• Forks: 0
• Open Issues: 0
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  • Readme: README.md
  • License: LICENSE

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# [Py Chess Tk](https://github.com/TriForMine/py-chess-tk)

A chess game written in python with tk

![Preview](https://i.imgur.com/sFCSYrZ.png)

This project was made for a university project.

## Features

- Showing the board with pieces

- Show a preview of the movements that are possible.

- Moving pieces.

- Capturing pieces

- Turn by turn with a second player

- Detect checkmate

- Playing against a basic bot using [minimax algorithm](https://towardsdatascience.com/how-a-chess-playing-computer-thinks-about-its-next-move-8f028bd0e7b1) and [alpha-beta pruning](https://www.chessprogramming.org/Alpha-Beta).

- Configuration menu, with restart, bot or 2 players, bot difficulty.

- Prevent illegal/sucidal moves from being done.

## What is missing

This project only includes the basis of chess.


- And doesn't contain everything like **Pawn Promotion, Castling, Passant**.


- It also doesn't contain any save/load board system, neither algebraic notation.


## Check and Checkmate detection

The project implements a basic detection for check and checkmate.


But it might not be perfect and not always detect them.


Be aware of this if you want to play the game.

## Unstable

Be aware that this project is just a demo of what Tkinter and Python can do. 


It will probably contain bugs and doesn't detect everything correctly.


## Bot

The project implements a really simple bot using the minimax algorithm.


This bot is not optimized and not really good. 


> You shouldn't try using a big depth for the bot, or it will really be slow.

## Will this project be updated in the future?

No, this project was made for a university project, and I will not maintain it as I work on other big projects.

If you want to contribute feel free to open a pull request.

## Why Tkinter?

This was the requirements for that project.

## Where does the images' comes from?

The project uses the following [images](https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:SVG_chess_pieces) which are under Creative Commons license.

## Thanks

- [CorentinGS](https://github.com/CorentinGS/Chess-Tkinter/) for suggesting some ideas and improvements to the project.