Transformer Chess Player

Student: Nour Alassali

Course: INFOMTALC2026 – Midterm Assignment

Overview

This project implements a chess player that combines a transformer model with chess heuristics.

Model

The player uses the following HuggingFace model: https://huggingface.co/Qwen/Qwen2.5-0.5B-Instruct

If loading this model fails, the player falls back to: https://huggingface.co/distilgpt2

Requirements

Dependencies are listed in requirements.txt.

Main libraries used:

• python-chess
• torch
• transformers
• huggingface-hub

Install with:

pip install -r requirements.txt