Chess AI Workshop

UCI AI Club Chess AI

Download

Use the "Clone or download" and click "Download ZIP".

Save the folder to your computer.

Open a Terminal (OSX/LINUX) or CMD (WINDOWS) and follow the below instructions.

Prerequisites

We have provided a requirements.txt for you to setup your python3 environment.

Change directories to chess AI folder

cd /path/to/chess/folder/

First off, create your virtual environment by entering the below command

Mac OSX / Linux

If on OSX or Linux, enter the following into terminal

python3 -m venv chessenv

source chessenv/bin/activate

pip install -r requirements.txt

Windows

If on windows, you may have to run the following in order to install the virtual environment tool

pip3 install virtualenv

Then, you have to run the following to make and activate the venv

virtualenv chessenv

chessenv\Scripts\activate.bat

pip install -r requirements.txt

RUN (When code is completed)

Once you have got your venv activated, run the following command

cd PyChess
python chess.py