lichess-bot
A bridge between Lichess API and chess engines (by lichess-bot-devs)
chess-library
C++ chess library (by Disservin)
| lichess-bot | chess-library | |
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| 8 | 1 | |
| 691 | 54 | |
| 1.6% | - | |
| 9.4 | 9.2 | |
| 5 days ago | 6 days ago | |
| Python | C++ | |
| GNU Affero General Public License v3.0 | MIT License |
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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.
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 2024-04-30.
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How to make a Lichess bot in Python
Clone https://github.com/lichess-bot-devs/lichess-bot.git into your new project! Make sure you have github installed!
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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.
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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
chess-library
Posts with mentions or reviews of chess-library.
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.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing lichess-bot and chess-library you can also consider the following projects:
irwin - irwin - the protector of lichess from all chess players villainous
surge - A fast bitboard-based chess move generator in C++
pychess - PyChess - a chess client for Linux/Windows
cozy-chess - A Chess and Chess960 move generation library written in Rust
pgn-tactics-generator - Generate chess puzzles / tactics from a pgn file
OpenBench - OpenBench is a Distributed SPRT Testing Framework for Chess Engines
chessli - A free and open source chess improvement app that combines the power of Lichess and Anki.
lichess-tournament-creator - A script to automatically create chess tournaments using Lichess API
syzygy-tables.info - User interface and public API for probing Syzygy endgame tablebases
chess - A chess library, chess engine, Lichess client, and UCI implementation written in Java
play-chess-with-a-webcam - Play Chess With a Webcam
lichs - ♟ Play chess against real players in your terminal using Lichess
lichess-bot vs irwin
chess-library vs surge
lichess-bot vs pychess
chess-library vs cozy-chess
lichess-bot vs pgn-tactics-generator
chess-library vs OpenBench
lichess-bot vs chessli
lichess-bot vs lichess-tournament-creator
lichess-bot vs syzygy-tables.info
lichess-bot vs chess
lichess-bot vs play-chess-with-a-webcam
lichess-bot vs lichs