I am trying to make a chess game that can be ran on terminal and a variable that should have a value doesn't have a value and i don't know what is that cousing the problem
I want to make a chess engine but before doing a chess engine i was trying to make a chess game kind of thing can be seen on the terminal and if you wish to you could play a chess game and can manipulate the board from the terminal. I was trying for a variable called colomn_m to read the last digit of the chess move for the column of the piece using a for loop and i was excepting to it to have the value but it doesn't, even if i tried entering a valid move like pf5
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board = [[" R ", " N ", " B ", " Q ", " K ", " B ", " N ", " R "],
[" P ", " P ", " P ", " P ", " P ", " P ", " P ", " P "],
[" ", " ", " ", " ", " ", " ", " ", " "],
[" ", " ", " ", " ", " ", " ", " ", " "],
[" ", " ", " ", " ", " ", " ", " ", " "],
[" ", " ", " ", " ", " ", " ", " ", " "],
[" p ", " p ", " p ", " p ", " p ", " p ", " p ", " p "],
[" r ", " n ", " b ", " q ", " k ", " b ", " n ", " r "],]
m_c = 0
piece_m = ""
row_m = ""
colomn_m = ""
def draw_b():
print(" +---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+")
print("8|{}|{}|{}|{}|{}|{}|{}|{}|".format(board[7][0], board[7][1], board[7][2], board[7][3], board[7][4], board[7][5], board[7][6], board[7][7]))
print(" +---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+")#emptyrom*********************************************************************************************
print("7|{}|{}|{}|{}|{}|{}|{}|{}|".format(board[6][0], board[6][1], board[6][2], board[6][3], board[6][4], board[6][5], board[6][6], board[6][7]))
print(" +---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+")#emptyrom*********************************************************************************************
print("6|{}|{}|{}|{}|{}|{}|{}|{}|".format(board[5][0], board[5][1], board[5][2], board[5][3], board[5][4], board[5][5], board[5][6], board[5][7]))
print(" +---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+")#emptyrom*********************************************************************************************
print("5|{}|{}|{}|{}|{}|{}|{}|{}|".format(board[4][0], board[4][1], board[4][2], board[4][3], board[4][4], board[4][5], board[4][6], board[4][7]))
print(" +---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+")#emptyrom*********************************************************************************************
print("4|{}|{}|{}|{}|{}|{}|{}|{}|".format(board[3][0], board[3][1], board[3][2], board[3][3], board[3][4], board[3][5], board[3][6], board[3][7]))
print(" +---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+")#emptyrom*********************************************************************************************
print("3|{}|{}|{}|{}|{}|{}|{}|{}|".format(board[2][0], board[2][1], board[2][2], board[2][3], board[2][4], board[2][5], board[2][6], board[2][7]))
print(" +---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+")#emptyrom*********************************************************************************************
print("2|{}|{}|{}|{}|{}|{}|{}|{}|".format(board[1][0], board[1][1], board[1][2], board[1][3], board[1][4], board[1][5], board[1][6], board[1][7]))
print(" +---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+")#emptyrom*********************************************************************************************
print("1|{}|{}|{}|{}|{}|{}|{}|{}|".format(board[0][0], board[0][1], board[0][2], board[0][3], board[0][4], board[0][5], board[0][6], board[0][7]))
print(" +---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+")#emptyrom*********************************************************************************************
print(" a b c d e f g h ")#emptyrom*********************************************************************************************
while True:
draw_b()
try:
move = input("Enter your move: ")
except ValueError:
move = input("Please enter a correct move 'xxx piece_letter+the_colom+the_row': ")
m_c = 0
for i in move:
if m_c == 0:
piece_m = i
m_c =1
continue
if m_c == 1:
match i:
case "a":
row_m = "1"
print("1")
continue
case "b":
row_m = "2"
print("2")
continue
case "c":
row_m = "3"
print("3")
continue
case "d":
row_m = "4"
print("4")
continue
case "e":
row_m = "5"
print("5")
continue
case "f":
row_m = "6"
print("6")
continue
case "g":
row_m = "7"
print("7")
continue
case "h":
row_m = "8"
print("8")
continue
m_c = 2
continue
if m_c == 2:
colomn_m = str(i)
print(colomn_m)
m_c = 3
continue
m_c = 0
print(piece_m)
print(row_m)
print(colomn_m)
board[int(row_m)-1][int(colomn_m)-1] = f" {piece_m} "
please help me
The continue statements in the case blocks skip the m_c = 2, hence the if m_c == 1: block is again executed instead of the if m_c == 2: block for the third input character, which so isn't assigned to colomn_m.
I'd substitute this unnecessarily complex for loop with
piece_m = move[0]
colomn_m = 1+"abcdefgh".index(move[1])
row_m = move[2]
(note that row_m and colomn_m were confounded).