silkrow / chessopeningtraining

To train your chess opening skills

ChessOpeningTraining

To train your chess opening skills

Dependencies

• react
• chess.js
• react-chessboard
• chess-openings-database (git repo for pgn)
• d3
• pandas ([OPTIONAL] python module used for opening database tsv loading)
• requests ([OPTIONAL] python module used for opening database tsv loading)

TODO

• Find a source of chess opening FENs.
• Update the form to support multiple choices (choose training targets from a pool of openings).
• Draw gif pictures for banner.
• Make the App know which opening is Mychessboard running with.

Log

2023.4.8

commit: cfeda03fcdb57d19237281d5bd60e154ae0b6441

Imported react-chessboard from https://github.com/Clariity/react-chessboard to visualize the board. Together with the previously imported chess.js, the website now supports:

1. Beautifully displayed chess board, with elegant moving animations and graceful looking pieces and board.
2. Choose to play against human (yourself) or computer (random response) with a form. After pressing the "Set" button, the board will automatically reset.

2023.4.16

commit: 56fb93dc4c0f09dc0de5e71b0f42166498f9c002

Found lichess-org's repo chess-openings-database for the pgn database of openings, I created a fork of this repo and download database from my own fork. Used d3 in javascripts to load tsv file (since training pgn database is locally stored as a tsv file). Python library requests is used in a python script to download the tsv files from my fork of the database and combine them as all.tsv, and use pandas to add an Index column to all.tsv. I've managed to do some updates to the GUI, and allow the user to train the first opening from a pool of openings they selected.

The website now supports:

1. Multiple choice form for user to pick openings to train.
2. A block of chosen openings on the right side of the webpage.
3. A block indicating numbers of openings left on the left side of the webpage.
4. The first randomly picked opening from user's choice can be trained, with user being white.
5. Since the left block couldn't print the name of the current opening yet, use console.log to see the pgn of the opening being trained.

Issues:

1. Right now Mychessboard can't tell App that one opening has been done, so there's always only one opening being trained.
2. Note that there are still some synchronization issues when the number of selected openings is too small. Also, the "number of openings left" is sometimes incorrect, I'm guessing this being the issue of asynchronization in App.js.