millichess: an implementation of some of the Lichess APIs to test bots

[ghost]

Hello, everyone! While creating my bot for Lichess, from time to time I felt like I wished there were an easy way to test it without having to commit to having my changes run directly on Lichess itself.

So I recently started a project to implement a subset of the Lichess APIs to allow for people to test bots out more easily. I worked on it for the past few days, so it is in a very early stage at the moment, but my hope is to improve it over time.

I decided to call the project millichess, which is a junction of “milli” (the SI prefix) and “Lichess”.

It can be run locally with Deno, or used directly from its website at https://millichess.org.

I don’t expect for many bots to work with it insofar, but thoughts and suggestions would be appreciated, of course! 🙂

[ornicar]

Very interesting, thanks for sharing!

[ghost]

A small update, in case anyone might find it interesting: I was recently able to get it to be able to run Stockifish using the lichess-bot Python bridge and have my bot Dummyette play against it! 🎉 So it works reasonably well by now, I think. (Besides some fairly significant stability fixes, so it shouldn’t crash nearly as much anymore!)