chessboard 0.2.1

Python CLI to explore chessboard positions.

Chessboard

Python CLI to explore chessboard positions.

TODO

• Implement a brute force algorithm.

• Make algorithm faster and smarter.

Development philosophy

2. Then something that’s beautiful.

3. Finally works on performance.

Install

$ git clone [e-mail]:kdeldycke/chessboard.git
$ cd ./chessboard
$ python ./setup.py develop

Usage

$ chessboard --help
Usage: chessboard [OPTIONS]

  Python CLI to explore chessboard positions.

Options:
  --version             Show the version and exit.
  -l, --length INTEGER  Length of the board.
  -h, --height INTEGER  Height of the board.
  -v, --verbose         Print much more debug statements.
  --king INTEGER        Number of kings to add to the board.
  --help                Show this message and exit.

Unit-tests

$ python ./setup.py nosetests

Third-party

This project package’s boilerplate is sourced from the code I wrote for Scaleway’s postal-address module, which is published under a GPLv2+ License.

The CLI code is based on the one I wrote for the kdenlive-tools module, published under a BSD license.

License

This software is licensed under the GNU General Public License v2 or later (GPLv2+).

ChangeLog

0.2.1 (2015-08-11)

• Fix King displacement map.

0.2.0 (2015-08-11)

• Allow initialization of board pieces.

• Implement brute-force solver.

0.1.1 (2015-08-08)

• Package re-release to fix bad version number.

0.1.0 (2015-08-08)

• First public release.

• Implements a CLI to inititalize the chessboard.

0.0.0 (2015-08-08)

• First commit.