A fully functional chess library and terminal game written in Python from scratch, featuring Unicode piece rendering, move generation, move validation, and FEN support.
- Interactive terminal game with coloured board, move highlighting, and captured-piece display
- Full chess rules — castling, en passant, pawn promotion, 50-move rule, three-fold repetition, stalemate & checkmate detection
- FEN import / export for loading and saving positions
- Perft testing to verify move-generation correctness
- Multi-undo support
git clone https://github.com/johneliades/unicode_chess.git
cd unicode_chesspython -m venv .venv
.venv\Scripts\activate
pip install -r requirements.txtpython3 -m venv .venv
source .venv/bin/activate
pip install -r requirements.txtpython chess.py| Command | Description |
|---|---|
e2e4 |
Move piece from e2 to e4 |
undo |
Take back the last move |
new |
Start a new game |
perft N |
Run perft to depth N |
help |
Show available commands |
quit |
Exit |
Eliades John — GitHub