Contribute

Rigel Chess is open source (GPL licence). That means you can look at the code and contribute.

Download

Rigel is written in 100% Python 2.7 for quick easy development of ideas. Someday it may be ported to C code.

Play

Rigel Chess is a chess engine. It is not a chess gaming website. You can download it and play it on your computer. It can be integrated into online chess playing websites as a backend chess engine. Here are online gaming sites that use other chess engines

Release Notes

• 02/01/2019 - Lookahead N moves strategy
• 01/24/2019 - Handle pawn promotion
• 01/22/2019 - Support Chess Algebraic Notation, and Strategy Module created
• 01/19/2019 - First version of Rigel Chess working

Road Map

Initially created to make a functioning chess engine that could understand chess and make accurate moves. Once that was complete, the next stage is to incorporate computer intelligence in strategy

• Phase 1. Be able to read in chess moves and make its own chess moves

• Phase 2. Encorporate stragety.

  This is being done by codifying the five main objectives of the game as outlined here by chessfox.com

  Rigel Chess is in this phase now

  Here is a screen shot of a game being played on the Unix Command Line

  

• Phase 3: Refine its strategy so that it can begin win games agains strong players. A goal is to achieve a 1500 ranking.

• Phase 4: Integration. Create an interface to work with online chess game playing sites - so that others can play it, and so it can compete in chess engine tournaments.