Chess Engine

A chess engine implementation using bitboard representation for efficient board state management and move generation.

Features (Current)

• Bitboard-based board representation
• Basic board visualization
• Initial position setup
• Piece placement tracking

Planned Features

• Legal move generation
• Position evaluation
• Search algorithms (Minimax with Alpha-Beta pruning)
• Opening book integration
• UCI protocol support

Setup

1. Create a virtual environment (recommended):

python -m venv venv
source venv/bin/activate  # On Unix/macOS

2. Install dependencies:

pip install -r requirements.txt

3. Run the chess engine:

python chess_engine.py

Implementation Details

The engine uses bitboards for board representation, where each piece type and color is represented by a 64-bit integer. Each bit in these integers corresponds to a square on the chess board, making operations like move generation and position evaluation more efficient.