elo ratings for chess bots

[moonpatel]

Right now the ELO rating for the chess bot is hardcoded and player have no option to choose a rating to play with. You need to create a dropdown list in the play menu to select ELO rating of chess bot and create a bot instance accordingly in the backend in /backend/chess-bot.js. You can refer to this page to learn more about chess engine commands -> https://gist.github.com/DOBRO/2592c6dad754ba67e6dcaec8c90165bf

You will need setoption command for settings various parameters of the chess engine such as ELO strength.

[y-ashaswini]

Please assign this issue to me!

[moonpatel]

Sure go ahead @y-ashaswini

[y-ashaswini]

Greetings. Needed the connection string to your backend instance. Backend doesn't run without that.

Cheers
yashaswini

[moonpatel]

Greetings. Needed the connection string to your backend instance. Backend doesn't run without that.

Cheers yashaswini

You can use the local mongodb server connection string (mongodb://localhost:27017) for development stage in your .env file.

[moonpatel]

Greetings. Needed the connection string to your backend instance. Backend doesn't run without that.

Cheers yashaswini

Local instance does not works in docker containers though. If you are using docker containers you can setup a sample database on mongodb atlas for free.

[moonpatel]

You can use this connection string mongodb+srv://moonpatel:LVRKq3LR6MFsZCa@cluster0.9yckuu8.mongodb.net/
@y-ashaswini

[y-ashaswini]

AH thank you tons @moonpatel . Will use this.

[y-ashaswini]

@moonpatel , it looks like the 'save changes' button on the profile page isn't functioning very well. It gives an error saying 'user number so-and-so not found', though i've just successfully created a new user, and of course, the user exists since there is a username and a password. its only the first last names and the country, city names that i'm unable to set.

also, i figured out the instances of the chessbot setting it's elo rating, but not the user's default user elo rating. please point me towards the directory/ module in question!

thanks :)

[moonpatel]

@moonpatel , it looks like the 'save changes' button on the profile page isn't functioning very well. It gives an error saying 'user number so-and-so not found', though i've just successfully created a new user, and of course, the user exists since there is a username and a password. its only the first last names and the country, city names that i'm unable to set.

also, i figured out the instances of the chessbot setting it's elo rating, but not the user's default user elo rating. please point me towards the directory/ module in question!

thanks :)

There seems to be some bug in the 'Save changes' button. I will open an issue for that later on. That page is only for adding additional details for the user.

Right now there is no ELO rating for the user. You just need to allow the user to set an ELO rating for the chessbot on the play with computer page. Add an input element with some ELO ratings options and below the choose color input element. Make sure to pull the changes before proceeding further.