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The Windmill Chess Engine; writing a chess computer from scratch in PHP

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The Windmill Chess Engine; writing a chess computer from scratch in PHP

  • Wednesday, January 14, 2015
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The README.md

Windmill

Windmill is a highly extensible chess framework written in PHP, powered by Symfony., (*1)

Notable features include: - play chess against any engine (here is the list of supported engines so far), either through the CLI or web app (see Usage below). - replay historic chess games from a given PGN file (see datasets for an overview of built-in games) - see the Roadmap for more, (*2)

Requirements

  • go-task (MacOS: brew install go-task/tap/go-task, otherwise see https://taskfile.dev/installation/)
  • docker (see https://docs.docker.com/get-docker/)

Usage (WIP)

  • Run make reset
  • To play a game of chess, run make console COMMAND='bin/console windmill:play' to start a game of chess. NOTE: You can use the --engine=your_engine option if you want to play against a non-random engine.
  • To replay a game of chess, run bin/console windmill:replay ./path/to/your/pgn_file.pgn to replay a game from a PGN file, allowing you to go through it step by step.)

Tests (WIP)

  • Run make tests to run all tests

Background/why

  • I love chess.
  • I've been a PHP programmer for 12+ years, turned Data Engineer for the last 2 years, and now want to see what I've been missing.
  • I had some time to spare.

Roadmap

  • Preparation
    • [x] Dig into previous incarnations of this project to get inspired
    • [x] Get familiar with the last 2 years of Symfony (and PHP) improvements.
  • Game fundamentals
    • [x] Create initial proof of concept
    • [x] Create a baseline of tests that the framework should abide to
    • [x] Implement algorithm that adheres to this baseline
    • [x] Be able to represent the game visually
    • CLI:
      • [x] Support FEN
      • [x] Support PGN
      • [x] Support SAN
      • [x] Support ASCII
    • Web App:
      • [ ] Provide the same functionality as the CLI, only now though a website
    • [ ] Create more complex scenarios, making sure the game logic deals with every possible case.
    • [ ] Add more engines besides 'Random'
    • [ ] Support persisting games so they can be continued (and/or analysed) later

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