Official repository for Project Autonomous Chess Bot under Cyborg, NITR

An Autonomous chess playing bot capable of playing chess with users.

The project uses：

• ROS as framework to the development of the control system

• Qt4 to facilitate user-system interacion

• Stockfish chess engine as the intelligence unit of the bot

• Python chess API for easier communication with the engine and for increasing software robustness

• OpenCV to facilitate computer vision algorithms to track board movements while user's physical move inputs are taken from an overhead camera

• Arduino UNO to control an X-Y slider mapping the system output and the physical chess board

• Serial communication protocol (sopported by Pyserial library) for communicating between Arduino and the system

• Ubuntu 16.04
• ROS Kinetic
• OpenCV 3.2
• Arduino IDE
• QT4
• Python 2.7 libs (Python chess API & Stockfish 8)
• CMake 2.8.3

The Project is completed and the code has been archived.