Chess Bot

README for version 3.2.1

Chess Bot is a discord bot that plays chess and lets you play chess with friends in your servers. It also has a built-in elo rating system.

Links

Chess Bot support server

Top.gg

Github

Invite

Mechanics

Basic Mechanics

You can use the command $challenge to start a game of chess.

Use $challenge user to challenge another person, or $challenge bot to challenge a bot.

Use $move to make a move. Make sure your move is in SAN (Standard Algebraic Notation) or UCI (Universal Chess Interface). Otherwise, the bot will not understand it.

Use $view to view your game.

Chess Bot profiles

You can challenge multiple levels of the bot. Make sure to specify which level you want to play when using the $challenge command.

Use the $profiles command to see a list of all levels you can challenge, and use $profile view <tag> to learn more about a specific bot. Note: the tag of a bot is not the same as it's name. For example, the tag of the bot "Chess Bot level 1" is cb1.

Chess Bot uses a custom built engine to determine which moves it plays. (It's not very good though, because I built it, and I'm bad at coding).

You can also play against various levels of stockfish 14.

Timer

To prevent people from abandoning a the game without loss of rating, you will automatically resign if you do not make a move for 3 days.

You will receive a low time warning when you only have 1 day left.

Use $time to see how much time you have left.

Commands

Slash commands

All of the below commands are now implemented as slash commands. Be sure to invite Chess Bot with the new invite link (https://discord.com/api/oauth2/authorize?client_id=801501916810838066&permissions=2147795008&scope=bot%20applications.commands) to be able to use them.

Playing

• challenge: Challenges Chess Bot to a game.

• move <move>: Plays <move> against the computer.

• resign: Resigns the game.

• view: Views your current game.

• theme: Change your board theme

• time: Sends how much time you have left.

• profiles: Sends a list of which profiles you can challenge.

• fen: Sends current game in FEN format.

Rating related commands

• rating: Tells you your rating

• leaderboard: Shows top rated players.

  • Note:
    • The leaderboard can hold a max of 40 players
    • Changes in your username may not be reflected on the leaderboard for up to an hour

• rank: Shows your rank out of all rated players

• stats: Sends your stats.

Moderation

These commands require special permissions.

• prefix [prefix]: Makes or changes the server's server specific prefix. Must have administrator permission in the server.

Other

• botinfo: Sends basic info and stats about the bot

• ping: Sends "Pong!" and gives latency

• vote: Gifts you 5 rating points after voting for Chess Bot on top.gg

• invite: Sends a like to invite Chess bot to a server.

Help

Use $help to see a list of all the commands.

To get more information about any command, use $help [command]

Usage syntax: <arg> means a required argument, [arg] means an optional argument.

Bugs

Please report all bugs you find in the Chess Bot support server https://discord.gg/Bm4zjtNTD2.