chessAI - A playable chess engine in browser.

Chess engine/interface created using an implementation of the minimax algorithm with alpha-beta pruning and transposition tables.

See valuator.py for position evaluation.

TO DO

• Add more opening theory and development.
• Iterative deepening and improved transposition tables
• Test using lichess API for ELO rating.
• Optimise minimax efficiency further.
• Optimise piece-square valuation and piece valuation for opening and middle/endgame.
• Look into Quiescence search and horizon effect.
• Look into negamax or MTD(f)
• Look into Monte Carlo tree search.
• Look into using bitboards and neural networks
• Implement chess.js for legal move checking or just use backend (likely faster to use js).

Usage

pip3 install chess flask 
# then...
python3 app.py  # runs webserver on localhost:5000