A game of chess in Python

This is a work-in-progress chess game written in Python 3.6.

This was designed as my final project for CS 4100 Artificial Intelligence at Northeastern University in which we were tasked to apply our AI knowledge in some aspect that interested us. I chose to make a chess-playing minimax agent that compared various evaluation functions.

1. Clone this repository locally
2. Via command line, go to the repository
3. Type python3 play.py -v to begin the game

1. -v, --visual show the chess board after every move
2. -a, --ai an AI will choose the best move for you
3. --data1 run tests that compare the time of each evaluation function finding a move
4. --data2 run tests that compare a random agent against a minimax agent
5. -m, --material evaluate moves based on material
6. -p, --position evaluate moves based on board position
7. -k, --king evaluate moves based on king safety
8. -c, --combined evaluate moves with a combination of material, position, and king safety