chesstools

A collection of chess tools for the greater good!
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Table of Contents

1. About The Project
   • Built With
2. Getting Started
   • Prerequisites
   • Installation
3. Usage
4. Roadmap
5. Contributing
6. License
7. Contact
8. Acknowledgments

About The Project

This project is a collection of chess tools and resources for researchers, students, and chess enthusiasts.

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Getting Started

This is how you can get started using, developing, or configuring our project.

Prerequisites

This is an example of how to list things you need to use the software and how to install them.

• python

  Python version 3.10 should be installed
  

• pip

  python get-pip.py
  

  • The latest version of pip available

• chess

  pip install chess

  • python library chess

• requests

  pip install requests
  

  • python library requests

Installation

Below is the installation process for running our code locally.

1. Clone the repo

   git clone https://github.com/Hart-House-Chess-Club/chesstools.git

2. Launch the program

   python main.py
   

3. The following instructions describe how to set up the python environment.

   cd python_env
   python3 -m venv venv
   source venv/bin/activate  # or venv\Scripts\activate on Windows
   pip install -r requirements.txt
   

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Usage

This project is the beginning of many related projects part of the Hart House Chess Club's development of open-source Canadian chess software.

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Roadmap

• Add program configuration onto a web service
• Add configuration for FIDE ratings.
• Add configuration for API from chess.ca
• Add configuration for chess.com api
• Add integration with lichess.org
• Multi-language Support (must be available in french for CFC)
  • French

See the open issues for a full list of proposed features ( and known issues).

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Contributing

Contributions are what make the open source community such an amazing place to learn, inspire, and create. Any contributions you make are greatly appreciated.

If you have a suggestion that would make this better, please fork the repo and create a pull request. You can also simply open an issue with the tag "enhancement". Don't forget to give the project a star! Thanks again!

1. Fork the Project
2. Create your Feature Branch (git checkout -b feature/AmazingFeature)
3. Commit your Changes (git commit -m 'Add some AmazingFeature')
4. Push to the Branch (git push origin feature/AmazingFeature)
5. Open a Pull Request

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License

Distributed under the GPL License. See LICENSE for more information.

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Contact

Hart House Chess Club Executive Board

• harthousechess.com
• [email protected]

Victor Zheng

• @victor-zheng-codes

Project Link: https://github.com/Hart-House-Chess-Club/chesstools

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Acknowledgments

• Chess Federation of Canada
• lichess.org

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