Chess
A fast Ruby library to play chess with Ruby. This library is quite fast because rappresent the game situations with bitboards. In addition, the move generator is written in C as a Ruby extension.
Requirements
-
Ruby 1.9 or higher
Installation
gem install chess
Usage
require 'chess'
g = Chess::Game.new
until g.over?
begin
print "Give me a #{g.active_player} move: "
input = gets.chop
break if input == 'quit'
g << input
puts g
puts g.moves.last
rescue Chess::IllegalMoveError => e
puts 'Illegal move!'
end
end
puts g.status
Documentation is available here.
Questions or problems?
If you have any issues please add an issue on GitHub or fork the project and send a pull request.
Copyright
Copyright © 2012 Enrico Pilotto (@pioz). See LICENSE for details.