V0.26- Huge day for dynamo. The base chess program is officially complete. Every piece moves correctly, with castling, en passant, promotion, check, checkmate, and stalemate all working. The rules are done. Next comes the fun part: building the engine’s brain. ⚡♟️ #chessengine #computerchess #chess

V0.22 Big milestone for dynamo today: added king and knight movement, pawn captures, blocked pawn double-moves, and automatic pawn promotion. Basic moves are done an dusted. Long road ahead but it’s starting to feel less impossible! #chess #coding

v0.17 ✅ Today, dynamo learned bishops and queens. Bishops now move diagonally, reject illegal moves, and can’t jump pieces. Queens combine rook and bishop movement with full path blocking. Next up: king and knight. #ChessProgramming #Python #BuildInPublic

dynamo v0.15 Today’s milestone: rooks can no longer move through pieces. It doesn’t sound like much, but every legal move is another building block. One rule at a time, dynamo is slowly learning how to play chess.

Welcome to dynamo. I’m building a hobby chess engine from scratch with more curiosity than experience. This account is a public journal of my experience along the way. Let’s see where this goes.