Python Chess - A Short Introduction

[Steve Maughan]

I've just published a guest post about Python Chess by its author Niklas Fiekas. I'm really excited about Python Chess and how it can help developers crunch through chess data.

Find out more here:

http://www.chessprogramming.net/python-chess/


P.S. I changed ISP and took the opportunity to give the site's look and feel a quick refresh. ChessProgramming.net is now using Disqus for comments. Let me know what you think!

[jordanbray]

Looks great. The python code on the homepage is formatted incorrectly (for me - no tabs).

Is this open source?

[Steve Maughan]

Hi Jordan,

I'll take a look at the tab issue - thanks!

Yes - it's open source and on GitHib

- Steve

[Gerd Isenberg]

I've just published a guest post about Python Chess by its author Niklas Fiekas. I'm really excited about Python Chess and how it can help developers crunch through chess data.

Find out more here:

http://www.chessprogramming.net/python-chess/

Hi Steve,

What a coincidence, I just wrote a small cpw page on python-chess today as well
https://chessprogramming.wikispaces.com/python-chess

Cheers,
Gerd

[mvk]

I've just published a guest post about Python Chess by its author Niklas Fiekas. I'm really excited about Python Chess and how it can help developers crunch through chess data.

This looks pretty nice and complete!!

I have in the past month revised my own Python chess module, and put it in github last week. It has a different purpose: it is a Python wrapper around a C move generator, and nothing more than that. It talks FEN and algebraic (san, long, and uci). I needed it to get relatively fast move generation available in Python for scanning for transpositions in large opening books.

The work is still very rough and I consider it 'alpha status' now. But it is already operational on one of my systems. It passes perft stress tests.

As my kit is so tiny and single-purpose, it might be interesting to merge it into python-chess and have everything in one place. (If the author thinks it is ok to add a C extension).

https://github.com/kervinck/chessmoves/

Works on Mac, FreeBSD and Linux. I see no fundamental reason why it wouldn't work on Windows, except that I haven't tested it yet. I plan to support it on all platforms. License will be open source (3-clause BSD).

[niklasf]

Hi Marcel,

apologies for the delayed response.

For the moment the my policy is to stay pure Python. The API is still not particularly stable and I want to be able to easily move stuff around, for example to implement Chess960 support.

- Niklas