Lucas Chess Conversion Project

This project converts the Lucas Chess application from PySide2 to PySide6 and updates the Python version from 3.7 (32bits) to 3.13 (64 bits). The conversion process is automated using a script located in the __Convert subdirectory.

Table of Contents

• Introduction
• Requirements
• Installation
• Usage
• License

Introduction

Lucas Chess is an open-source chess program designed for training, playing, and competing. This project aims to modernize the application by upgrading its dependencies to more recent versions.

Requirements

• Python 3.13
• PySide6
• chardet
• sortedcontainers
• python-chess
• pillow
• cython
• psutil
• polib
• deep_translator
• requests
• urllib3
• idna
• certifi
• bs4

Installation

1. Clone the repository:

   git clone https://github.com/lukasmonk/lucaschessR6.git
   cd lucaschessR6

2. Navigate to the __Convert directory:

   cd __Convert

3. Install the required dependencies:

   pip install -r requirements.txt

Usage

1. Create FasterCode library

   cd _fastercode

   windows: edit the first 8 lines of runVC64.bat, indicating the python version and the path to mingw

   runVC64.bat
   

   linux:

   linux64.sh
   

2. Run the conversion script, the script will copy all source files and convert them to use PySide6:

   python convert.py

3. Navigate back to the main directory:

   cd ../bin

4. If the OS is Linux:

   cd OS/linux
   sh ./RunEngines
   cd ../..

5. Launch of the programme:

   python LucasR.py

License

This project is licensed under the GNU General Public License v3.0. See the LICENSE file for details.