chess-bot

Provides stockfish best move analysis during gameplay (vs the computer) on chess.com or lichess with Firefox browser

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info

The product consists of 2 components:

firefox extension (frontend)

• asks the stockfish server for the best move based on the current game state and updates whenever opponent makes a move happens
• displays the stockfish evaluation on the web page with highlights on the board (chess.com/lichess)
• click 'refresh' button if the game gets out of sync

local HTTP server for stockfish evaluation as a service (backend, runs on your local computer)

(OUTDATED)

• has a ready stockfish engine and functions for analysing best moves based on FEN string
• POST / endpoint for getting stockfish best move analysis based on chess FEN string
  • Content-Type: text/plain request body should be the FEN string to analyze

Sample request/response (OUTDATED)

Request

POST http://localhost:8080/
Content-Type: text/plain
rnbqkbnr/pp1ppppp/8/2p5/8/3P4/PPP1PPPP/RNBQKBNR w KQkq c6 0 2

Response

bestmove e2e4 ponder b8c6

installing

pre-requisites

You need to have these tools:

• git
• node.js 16+
• firefox

installation & usage process

1. clone the repo: git clone [email protected]:haug1/chess-bot.git
2. install stockfish server
   1. go to backend/ directory in terminal
   2. install the dependencies: npm i
   3. run the server: npm start (must be running for the browser extension to work)
3. install the firefox extension
   1. go to about:debugging
   2. click This Firefox
   3. click Load Temporary Add-on...
   4. choose the frontend/bin/manifest.json file
4. go to chess.com/lichess and play vs the computer
5. click 'refresh' if game gets out of sync (shouldn't really happen)