python-chess VS python-chess-annotator

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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)

python-chess-annotator

Reads chess games in PGN format and adds annotations using an engine (by rpdelaney-archive)
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Python Python
GNU General Public License v3.0 only GNU General Public License v3.0 only
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python-chess

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python-chess-annotator

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  • Easiest way to mass analyze a large database of games
    3 projects | /r/ComputerChess | 24 Apr 2021
    Game Analysis. Scroll through github for chess annotation software packages (example1, example2), or sketch one out yourself using the python-chess library. I'm pretty certain scidvspc also has the ability to annotate and analyze a repository of games (I vaguely remember doing so for an epd).

What are some alternatives?

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

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

pgn-tactics-generator - Generate chess puzzles / tactics from a pgn file

pychess - PyChess - a chess client for Linux/Windows

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.

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

irwin - irwin - the protector of lichess from all chess players villainous

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

chess - Program for playing chess in the console against AI or human opponents

pgnToFen - Takes PGN as input and returns FEN

command-line-chess - A python program to play chess against an AI in the terminal.

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