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python-chess,
a chess library by Niklas Fiekas, written in Python and released under the GPL v3. The goal was to create a simple and relatively highlevel library . It supports Python 3.5.3+ and PyPy3 .

Features

Board and Moves

• Legal Move Generation
• Make Move
• Unmake Move

Detection

• Attacks
• Check
• Checkmate
• Stalemate
• Draw by Insufficient Material
• Repetitions

Creating and Parsing

• SAN
• FEN
• EPD
• PGN

Probing

• PolyGlot Opening Book
• Gaviota Tablebases
• Syzygy Bases

Protocols

• UCI

See also

• aiBloodshed
• If Deep Blue could talk
• Jerry
• libchess
• PicoChess
• Shatranj (toolkit)

Forum Posts

• Re: PGN to FEN (with Evaluation)? by Matthew Lai, CCC, December 29, 2014
• Re: how to probe egtb from console? by Ronald de Man, CCC, May 15, 2015 » Endgame Tablebases, CLI
• Python Chess - A Short Introduction by Steve Maughan, CCC, May 16, 2015
• Probing tablebases in python-chess by Robert Pope, CCC, March 20, 2017 » Gaviota Tablebases

External Links

• python-chess 0.28.1 : Python Package Index
• niklasf/python-chess · GitHub by Niklas Fiekas,
• niklasf/syzygy-tables.info · GitHub by Niklas Fiekas, GUI and public API for Syzygy probing
• Syzygy endgame tablebases Web Interface - Syzygy online lookup
• An implementation of the Bratko-Kopec Test using python-chess » Bratko-Kopec Test
• Chess Programming | Python Chess by Niklas Fiekas, hosted by Steve Maughan, May 16, 2015
• GitHub - Mk-Chan/python-chess-engine-extensions: Search and evaluation extensions for python-chess by Manik Charan
• GitHub - Mk-Chan/lczero_tools: Utilities for experimenting with leela-chess-zero by Manik Charan » Leela Chess Zero

References

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