An Analysis of Unwinnable Chess Positions

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  • ChessUnwinnableAnalyzer

    Categorizing unwinnable chess positions

  • Source code may be found at my Github. The repository also includes all the positions broken down by ply / outcome as they were in this post, if you're interested in seeing additional positions.

  • 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

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  • D3-Chess

    Chess Unwinnability Analyzer is an implementation of a decision procedure for checking whether there exists a sequence of legal moves that allows a certain player to checkmate their opponent in a given chess position.

  • Of course, somebody eventually made a project to find all of these games and created the Chess Unwinnability Analyzer (known as CHA):

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