chess-openings
An aggregated data set of chess opening names (by lichess-org)
lichess-bot
A bridge between Lichess API and chess engines (by lichess-bot-devs)
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| chess-openings | lichess-bot | |
|---|---|---|
| 5 | 7 | |
| 331 | 687 | |
| 3.3% | 2.8% | |
| 8.1 | 9.4 | |
| 5 days ago | 3 days ago | |
| Python | Python | |
| Creative Commons Zero v1.0 Universal | GNU Affero General Public License v3.0 |
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For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
chess-openings
Posts with mentions or reviews of chess-openings.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-02-23.
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Is there a chess library in Python (or any other programming language but Python preferred) that will allow me to identify the opening of a game by passing the PGN of the game as input?
Not a library, but at least a collection of openings in a machine readable format. Also a script to manipulate it in the bin/ folder. https://github.com/lichess-org/chess-openings
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Let's make the Zelensky Defence a reality: https://github.com/lichess-org/chess-openings/issues/32
Make a comment to support this idea: https://github.com/lichess-org/chess-openings/issues/32
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Are there any world champions with no openings or variations named after them?
In the list of openings used by Lichess, there are no variations named after Anand or Magnus. Also none named after the FIDE world champions Khalifman, Kasimdzhanov, and Topalov.
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If I were going to make a collection of all chess openings at their most basic move sequence, how many would there be?
I would suggest using the TSV files instead. https://github.com/niklasf/eco
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Best/worst openings from lichess database
Here's a list of openings with the associated FEN: https://github.com/niklasf/eco
lichess-bot
Posts with mentions or reviews of lichess-bot.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-12-10.
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Interested in creating, playing and testing your own chess engine?
https://github.com/ShailChoksi/lichess-bot is a straight forward way to use any UCI engine with lichess. There are also a few libraries for move generation mine: https://github.com/Disservin/chess-library , libchess: https://github.com/kz04px/libchess , surge: https://github.com/nkarve/surge . These are C++ ones, for rust theres https://github.com/analog-hors/cozy-chess . In python you could use python-chess but its incredibly slow for engine stuff writing your own will probably be faster if you know what you are doing.
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I have created a chess engine in python. How do I modify it for UCI protocol?
I would recommend downloading this bot, written in Python: https://github.com/ShailChoksi/lichess-bot
Once you have these basic UCI commands implemented, you can use this application to run your engine as BOT on lichess.
- Making A Geocache
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I made a 1660 lichess bot
The bot uses the Shail Choksi's lichess-bot package (link) and stockfish. It's currently running on pythoneverywhere.com. I am very much a hobbyist and this is the first time I've done anything "useful" with coding. If you encounter any bugs, DM me and I'll do my best to fix them.
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Is there a chess platform that explicitly allows computer play?
You can make a lichess bot with your engine (https://github.com/ShailChoksi/lichess-bot or similar API). The instructions are all fairly straightforward, but if you need any help feel free to reach out!
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How do people go about testing chess engines against each other?
If you just want to make your engine play some games, with a uci interface you can quickly setup a bot account on lichess and challenge any available bot. https://github.com/ShailChoksi/lichess-bot
What are some alternatives?
When comparing chess-openings and lichess-bot you can also consider the following projects:
chessli - A free and open source chess improvement app that combines the power of Lichess and Anki.
irwin - irwin - the protector of lichess from all chess players villainous
pgn-tactics-generator - Generate chess puzzles / tactics from a pgn file
pychess - PyChess - a chess client for Linux/Windows
pgn2data - A library that converts a chess pgn file into a tabulated CSV data set.
play-chess-with-a-webcam - Play Chess With a Webcam
lichess-tournament-creator - A script to automatically create chess tournaments using Lichess API
scalachess - Chess API written in scala. Immutable and free of side effects. [Moved to: https://github.com/lichess-org/scalachess]
syzygy-tables.info - User interface and public API for probing Syzygy endgame tablebases
chess-openings vs chessli
lichess-bot vs irwin
chess-openings vs pgn-tactics-generator
lichess-bot vs pychess
chess-openings vs pychess
lichess-bot vs pgn-tactics-generator
chess-openings vs pgn2data
lichess-bot vs chessli
chess-openings vs play-chess-with-a-webcam
lichess-bot vs lichess-tournament-creator
chess-openings vs scalachess
lichess-bot vs syzygy-tables.info