(1) Minimax Agent w/ board-value neural network (basic)

(2) Monte Carlo Tree Search w/ move network (in style of AlphaZero)

To run web app locally (where you can play chess against the agent on an actual chess GUI), you need to export the environment variables in setup.txt, and need to create a database in postgres called testdb; then you can run python play_chess.py

To just view the monte carlo agent play against itself, you can just run python selfplay.py

You can also play against the Minimax agent with an actual GUI at https://playtauzero.herokuapp.com. Note the version deployed on heroku is simpler with less search power, though.

Colab notebook for training models: https://colab.research.google.com/drive/1pbMSAsHiy0PuZ7Oak-lhZenrRcS6oIgV#scrollTo=jpLujOJVF8Lz

Trained Models: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1n0ioGu-UHqMpdZIfmvMLmX-WL3_kTinz

Basic Minimax: https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/simple-chess-ai-step-by-step-1d55a9266977/

Basics of Monte Carlo: http://matthewdeakos.me/2018/03/10/monte-carlo-tree-search/?fbclid=IwAR3qmj9--m3s_0iVHateEMdjJBSbG9o4tHmontUL1hoXgt0sSodyRbFoa1U

AlphaGo Zero Paper: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/320473480_Mastering_the_game_of_Go_without_human_knowledge

Python chess library: https://python-chess.readthedocs.io/en/latest/index.html

Chess GUI credits: https://github.com/geohot/twitchchess

Heroku + Flask + Postgres tutorial: https://medium.com/@dushan14/create-a-web-application-with-python-flask-postgresql-and-deploy-on-heroku-243d548335cc

Thomas Chen @thomasthechen Collin Wang @collinwa Andrew Chen @archen2019