Play with other fediverse users a Chess game! Mastodon Chess control games, players and boards and it post, graphically, every move to both players!
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README.md

Mastodon Chess

Play with other fediverse users a Chess game! Mastodon Chess control games, players and boards and even it post, graphically, every move to both players!
Mastodon Chess (mastochess) uses python-chess library.

How to play:

To get help:

@your_bot_username help

To start a game:

@your_bot_username new

To make a move:

@your_bot_username move e2e4

To finish game at any time:

@your_bot_username end

To list on going games:

@your_bot_username games

To get any game anotations, in ex. game 1:

@your_bot_username send 1

To promote a pawn use first letter of desired piece:

@your_bot_username move g7g8r (if you want a rook)

n = knight
b = bishop
r = rook

Don't use q for queen. Pawn is promoted to Queen by default.

ca en es ex. Observ.
nova new nueva
mou move mueve e2e3
fi end fin
jocs games partidas
envia send envia 1 game number

Dependencies

  • Python 3
  • Postgresql server
  • Mastodon's bot account
  • Mastodon server admin

Usage:

Within Python Virtual Environment:

  1. Run pip install -r requirements.txt to install needed Python libraries.

  2. Run python db-setup.py to setup and create new Postgresql database and needed tables in it.

  3. Run python smtp_setup.py to setup your smtp server, user and password. Needed to send game anotations to players.

  4. Run python setup.py to get your Mastodon's bot account tokens.

  5. Use your favourite scheduling method to set python mastochess.py to run regularly.

board

20.11.2020 - New feature! Added link to on going games in games list
21.11.2020 - New feature! Added a warning to player in turn when has been captured one of its pieces
23.11.2020 - New feature! Now all moves are saved to file (with san anotation).
25.11.2020 - New feature! Get any game anotations via email (see point 3 above).
27.11.2020 - New feature! Pawn promotion and locales support ( ca & eng )
28.11.2020 - New feature! Added 'es' locale support
28.11.2020 - New feature! Now any fediverse user can play Mastodon Chess!
28.11.2020 - New feature! Added help