BUILDING A CHESS GAME APPLICATION

Abstract

In an era when chess is becoming more popular on the internet, developing a flexible and intelligent chess application has become an exciting and meaningful challenge. This thesis focuses on the developing a graphical chess application using Python. The application contains key features like Player vs. Player (PvP) and Player versus. AI (PvA) modes, selectable AI difficulty levels, move history, game storing and loading, and move recommendations. The project integrates the Pygame library for the graphical user interface (GUI) and event handling, the python-chess library for managing chess rules and game state, and the external Stockfish engine for providing Artificial Intelligence (AI) opponents and move suggestions. The result is a working and interactive chess program that successfully integrates specialized libraries with an external AI engine to create a practical chess-playing environment. The application is called Basic chess.