How to make a Lichess bot in Python

Chess is one of the most popular strategic games played all around the world. Chess bots now dominate even the highest level grand-masters so how do we make one?

To get started all you’ll need is Python3.9 and Github installed!

Outline

Lichess Communication:

Setting up a communication to lichess using lichess-bot.

Chess Bot:

Building a minimax chess engine using position and material eval.

Hosting:

Using https://railway.app/ to host your chess bot.

Lichess Communication

Cloning

To start off we’re …

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