Online functionality

[drakemj]

First of all, right now I am using an account connected to my email, and the program uses a personal API access token to play games with it. Eventually I want to be using an OAuth2 session instead, which I will need to do some digging around (and we might need a server to host AnotherChess clients and forward their requests through that?)

This will also come with users being able to authenticate using their own Lichess accounts.

For reference:

Using berserk, it handles the board events stream, which sends JSON in this fashion:

Corresponding Lichess API page:

So guessing we're going to have to do some FEN parsing, which should be handled through the pychess API.

[drakemj]

looks like lastMove also is sent in UCI format, so we can just update the storage object's pychess core board member and retrieveStorage().

[drakemj]

• starting a game, closing the application, and reopening the client will connect you back to your old game in Lichess, but not in the AnotherChess client.
• Server-client board discrepancy (linked to above)
• If gameStateStream thread is daemon, does it terminate when eventStream does?
• Drawing and other actions will increase complexity, can be handled in client.py probably
• njson sent in gameState is not as expected. How to request time data?
• advanced: maybe someday have simul feature. IIRC there is ongoing games per user that can be used, but local storage will need to be sorted among other things
• better way to protect against illegal moves other than onlineTurn