Strongest Python Open-Source Engine

[Michael Neish]

Hi everyone, I'm interested in learning Python, and I'd like to do so in the same way as I learned C++, which was by studying a Chess engine (something that I'm interested in, rather than watching some boring tutorial) written in that language.

With that in mind, could someone tell me what the strongest open source Python engine is?

I am sorry if this question has been asked before.

Thanks for your help.

Mike.

[MikeB]

Hi everyone, I'm interested in learning Python, and I'd like to do so in the same way as I learned C++, which was by studying a Chess engine (something that I'm interested in, rather than watching some boring tutorial) written in that language.

With that in mind, could someone tell me what the strongest open source Python engine is?

I am sorry if this question has been asked before.

Thanks for your help.

Mike.

Not sure if is the the strongest , but it's the one I would pick.

http://pychess.org/download/

[CMCanavessi]

Is there the PyChess engine available stand-alone, in a zip file or something like that? I don't want to install the whole GUI to just use the engine with Arena...

[MikeB]

Hi everyone, I'm interested in learning Python, and I'd like to do so in the same way as I learned C++, which was by studying a Chess engine (something that I'm interested in, rather than watching some boring tutorial) written in that language.

With that in mind, could someone tell me what the strongest open source Python engine is?

I am sorry if this question has been asked before.

Thanks for your help.

Mike.

Not sure if is the the strongest , but it's the one I would pick.

http://pychess.org/download/

Michael,

You might also find this helpful:

https://media.readthedocs.org/pdf/pytho ... -chess.pdf

[Michael Neish]

Excellent. Thanks everyone.

[Norbert Raimund Leisner]

Here are several examples - I don´t know which is the strongest chess software.
In square brackets some batch-files are available, created with Notepad++ https://notepad-plus-plus.org/download/v7.5.6.html

https://github.com/flok99/feeks
https://github.com/mdoege/PyTuroChamp >buggy time management
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/ ... jVtUDVTUG8
(Windows-versions )
https://github.com/pychess/pychess/releases (comes with its own GUI)
http://talkchess.com/forum/viewtopic.ph ... 97&t=66149
https://github.com/ElliotVilhelm/IZII [python -u xboard.py]
https://github.com/thomasahle/sunfish/ [python -u xboard.py]
https://github.com/stannous/shatranj [python -u shatranj.py -xboard]
https://github.com/alexsyrom/chess-engine > buggy (no moves are executed)
https://github.com/jrialland/python-chess [python -u chess3.py]
https://github.com/flatline/lopez
http://kirr.homeunix.org/chess/engines/ ... -01-ja.zip

source code only etc.
https://github.com/Zeta36/chess-alpha-zero
https://github.com/Blender3D/Elephant

Best wishes,
Norbert

[Guenther]

https://github.com/flok99/feeks
https://github.com/mdoege/PyTuroChamp >buggy time management
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/ ... jVtUDVTUG8
(Windows-versions )
https://github.com/pychess/pychess/releases (comes with its own GUI)
http://talkchess.com/forum/viewtopic.ph ... 97&t=66149
https://github.com/ElliotVilhelm/IZII [python -u xboard.py]
https://github.com/thomasahle/sunfish/ [python -u xboard.py]
https://github.com/stannous/shatranj [python -u shatranj.py -xboard]
https://github.com/alexsyrom/chess-engine > buggy (no moves are executed)
https://github.com/jrialland/python-chess [python -u chess3.py]
https://github.com/flatline/lopez
http://kirr.homeunix.org/chess/engines/ ... -01-ja.zip

Note that IZII was updated a few days ago after my bug report.

Guenther

[gbtami]

Hi everyone, I'm interested in learning Python, and I'd like to do so in the same way as I learned C++, which was by studying a Chess engine (something that I'm interested in, rather than watching some boring tutorial) written in that language.

With that in mind, could someone tell me what the strongest open source Python engine is?

I am sorry if this question has been asked before.

Thanks for your help.

Mike.

Not sure if is the the strongest , but it's the one I would pick.

http://pychess.org/download/

Michael,

You might also find this helpful:

https://media.readthedocs.org/pdf/pytho ... -chess.pdf

python-chess is the best general chess library but it has no chess engine code at all.

[gbtami]

Is there the PyChess engine available stand-alone, in a zip file or something like that? I don't want to install the whole GUI to just use the engine with Arena...

https://github.com/pychess/pychess/rele ... 161204.pyz

It's an executable python zip archive. You can run it with python2 or python3.

[Michael Neish]

Thanks again to all those who replied. There's a lot of material there for sure.