j-chess bot manager

Manager for bots designed for the awesome j-chess-server using the j-chess-lib for python

• Free software: GNU General Public License v3
• Documentation: https://j-chess-client-manager.readthedocs.io.

Features

• Start clients using a UI
• See the current playstate of your clients

Screenshots

Screenshot showing the main UI with the chessboard, logs, metrics, clients

Screenshot showing menu to add a new AI

TODO

• Make clients stoppable
• Performance improvements
• Let user define own metrics to be shown

Usage

Implement your AI by implementing the AI class from j-chess-lib. See j-chess-lib Usage for usage instructions.

Then install the bot manager using

$pip install j_chess_client_manager

Then start the manager by calling

$j_chess_client_manager --with-package to.your.package

Where to.your.package should be the import statement to the package/pythonfile with your implemented ai from the current working directory.

Use

$j_chess_client_manager --help

to see all available options

Credits

• Idea and server generated by the nice JoKrus
• UI-Framework Asciimatics
• This package was created with Cookiecutter and the audreyr/cookiecutter-pypackage project template.