python-chess VS chess_engine

Compare python-chess vs chess_engine and see what are their differences.

python-chess

A chess library for Python, with move generation and validation, PGN parsing and writing, Polyglot opening book reading, Gaviota tablebase probing, Syzygy tablebase probing, and UCI/XBoard engine communication (by niklasf)
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python-chess chess_engine
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8.0 5.0
6 days ago about 3 years ago
Python Python
GNU General Public License v3.0 only -
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python-chess

Posts with mentions or reviews of python-chess. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-01-02.

chess_engine

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What are some alternatives?

When comparing python-chess and chess_engine you can also consider the following projects:

Fairy-Stockfish - chess variant engine supporting Xiangqi, Shogi, Janggi, Makruk, S-Chess, Crazyhouse, Bughouse, and many more

pychess - PyChess - a chess client for Linux/Windows

chess-image-generator - Accepts FEN, PGN or array data for chess board and generates PNG or buffer.

syzygy-tables.info - User interface and public API for probing Syzygy endgame tablebases

pgnToFen - Takes PGN as input and returns FEN

BEGAN-tensorflow - Tensorflow implementation of "BEGAN: Boundary Equilibrium Generative Adversarial Networks"

python-chess-analysis - Full analysis of a chess game including metrics related to imbalances in the positions using Python-Chess library

neural_network_chess - Free Book about Deep-Learning approaches for Chess (like AlphaZero, Leela Chess Zero and Stockfish NNUE)

chess-artist - A python script that can annotate chess games in pgn file with static evaluation or search score of an engine, can annotate an epd file with acd, acs, bm, and ce opcodes, can test engine with epd test suite and can generate chess puzzles.

En-Passant - rare checkmates from lichess.org

tweetable-polyglot-png - Pack up to 3MB of data into a tweetable PNG polyglot file.