Build your own Gleam Chess Bot

Learn about HTTP servers, chess programming and more

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Gleam is a functional programming language that compiles to Erlang. In this challenge you'll build your own Gleam Chess Bot that can participate in chess tournaments by responding to HTTP requests with chess moves.

Along the way, you'll learn about HTTP servers, JSON parsing, chess programming concepts and more.

Stages

Respond to /move request

Easy

Respond with an opening

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