PyChess 0.99.1

[gbtami]

We're pleased to announce, that a new PyChess Morphy 0.99.1 has been made available.
This is the second alpha of upcoming 1.0 release.
- New chess variant: Horde
- Board theme enhancements: texture, frame, grid
- Play Chess960 games on ICC
- Play with problembot/trainingbot/tacticaltrainer on ICC
- Countless GUI enhancements and bugfixes (by ecrucru)

Merry Christmas and happy holidays to all chess lovers!

Downloads: https://github.com/pychess/pychess/releases

[gbtami]

Just to wet your appetite here is a shot where I play with ICC problembot a famous puzzle.

[styx]

looks very good

will it support opening books (engines following the book in the opening)? one of very few drawbacks of older versions.

[gbtami]

looks very good

will it support opening books (engines following the book in the opening)? one of very few drawbacks of older versions.

Filed as https://github.com/pychess/pychess/issues/1538

[Norbert Raimund Leisner]

Hello,

I have installed PyChess 0.99.1 on Windows 7 SP1 32 bit successfully, but if I make a double-mouseclick on the python-chess engine (.exe-file) > cf error indication:
cx_Freeze: Python error in main script
Traceback (most recent call last)

File C:\python34\lib\site-packages\cx_Freeze\initscripts\Console.py
line27, in <module>
File lib/___main___./py, line 21 in <module>
File lib\pychess\Players\PyChessCECP.py, line 93, in run
File lib\pychess\Players\PyChessCECP.py, line 35, in get_input
RuntimeError: input (): lost sys.stdin

It is possible to run python-engine into other GUIs like WinBoard Interface or Arena too?


Norbert

[gbtami]

Hello,

I have installed PyChess 0.99.1 on Windows 7 SP1 32 bit successfully, but if I make a double-mouseclick on the python-chess engine (.exe-file) > cf error indication:
cx_Freeze: Python error in main script
Traceback (most recent call last)

File C:\python34\lib\site-packages\cx_Freeze\initscripts\Console.py
line27, in <module>
File lib/___main___./py, line 21 in <module>
File lib\pychess\Players\PyChessCECP.py, line 93, in run
File lib\pychess\Players\PyChessCECP.py, line 35, in get_input
RuntimeError: input (): lost sys.stdin

It is possible to run python-engine into other GUIs like WinBoard Interface or Arena too?


Norbert

On Windows python-chess engine (.exe-file) is only usable inside PyChess GUI. If you want to run python-chess engine outside of PyChess GUI you have to grab the latest engine from https://github.com/pychess/pychess/rele ... 161204.pyz
and run it with a Python interpreter. .pyz files are python executable zip files. See https://blogs.gnome.org/jamesh/2012/05/ ... zip-files/

[Guenther]

Hello,

I have installed PyChess 0.99.1 on Windows 7 SP1 32 bit successfully, but if I make a double-mouseclick on the python-chess engine (.exe-file) > cf error indication:
cx_Freeze: Python error in main script
Traceback (most recent call last)

File C:\python34\lib\site-packages\cx_Freeze\initscripts\Console.py
line27, in <module>
File lib/___main___./py, line 21 in <module>
File lib\pychess\Players\PyChessCECP.py, line 93, in run
File lib\pychess\Players\PyChessCECP.py, line 35, in get_input
RuntimeError: input (): lost sys.stdin

It is possible to run python-engine into other GUIs like WinBoard Interface or Arena too?


Norbert

On Windows python-chess engine (.exe-file) is only usable inside PyChess GUI. If you want to run python-chess engine outside of PyChess GUI you have to grab the latest engine from https://github.com/pychess/pychess/rele ... 161204.pyz
and run it with a Python interpreter. .pyz files are python executable zip files. See https://blogs.gnome.org/jamesh/2012/05/ ... zip-files/

IIRC 0.12.4 only had changes for Crazyhouse and I already tested it long ago for Crazyhouse?
For chess I still have 0.12.1 as the last with relevant changes and after extracting the new PyChess installation I see it is still the same.

BTW I always run it (the pychess-engine.exe!) without any problems through inbetween w/o any special commands in Winboard.

Code: Select all

[InBetween]
Debug := 3
CommandLine := C:\PyChess\PyChess-engine.exe
Log := PyChess.log

Code: Select all

0.000: - Starting server: C:\PyChess\PyChess-engine.exe
1.856: - Priority class set to normal
1.856: - Thread priority set to normal
6.193: > go
6.895&#58; < # PyChess 0.12.1 &#91;C&#58;\PyChess\PyChess-engine.exe 3.4.3&#93;
6.895&#58; < # Searching to depth 10 without timelimit

Guenther

[gbtami]

Hello,

I have installed PyChess 0.99.1 on Windows 7 SP1 32 bit successfully, but if I make a double-mouseclick on the python-chess engine (.exe-file) > cf error indication:
cx_Freeze: Python error in main script
Traceback (most recent call last)

File C:\python34\lib\site-packages\cx_Freeze\initscripts\Console.py
line27, in <module>
File lib/___main___./py, line 21 in <module>
File lib\pychess\Players\PyChessCECP.py, line 93, in run
File lib\pychess\Players\PyChessCECP.py, line 35, in get_input
RuntimeError: input (): lost sys.stdin

It is possible to run python-engine into other GUIs like WinBoard Interface or Arena too?


Norbert

On Windows python-chess engine (.exe-file) is only usable inside PyChess GUI. If you want to run python-chess engine outside of PyChess GUI you have to grab the latest engine from https://github.com/pychess/pychess/rele ... 161204.pyz
and run it with a Python interpreter. .pyz files are python executable zip files. See https://blogs.gnome.org/jamesh/2012/05/ ... zip-files/

IIRC 0.12.4 only had changes for Crazyhouse and I already tested it long ago for Crazyhouse?
For chess I still have 0.12.1 as the last with relevant changes and after extracting the new PyChess installation I see it is still the same.

BTW I always run it (the pychess-engine.exe!) without any problems through inbetween w/o any special commands in Winboard.

Code: Select all

[InBetween]
Debug := 3
CommandLine := C:\PyChess\PyChess-engine.exe
Log := PyChess.log

Code: Select all

0.000: - Starting server: C:\PyChess\PyChess-engine.exe
1.856: - Priority class set to normal
1.856: - Thread priority set to normal
6.193: > go
6.895&#58; < # PyChess 0.12.1 &#91;C&#58;\PyChess\PyChess-engine.exe 3.4.3&#93;
6.895&#58; < # Searching to depth 10 without timelimit

Guenther

IIRC tournament time control support was added after 0.12.1
So in theory 0.12.4 should produce less forfeit on time games.