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On 5/3/2016 8:00 PM, DFS wrote:
> How far along are you in your engine development?

I can display a text-based chess board on the console (looks better with 
a mono font).


  8   BR BN BB BQ BK BB BN BR

  7   BP BP BP BP BP BP BP BP

  6   __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __

  5   __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __

  4   __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __

  3   __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __

  2   WP WP WP WP WP WP WP WP

  1   WR WN WB WQ WK WB WN WR

      A  B  C  D  E  F  G  H


With feedback from this list, I had to break a lot of bad Java habits to 
make the code more Pythonic. Right now I'm going back and forth between 
writing documentation and unit tests. Once I finalized the code in its 
current state, I'll post it up on GitHub under the MIT license. Future 
updates will have a fuller console interface and moves for individual 
pieces implemented.

Thank you,

Chris R.