Welcome to chessengine’s documentation!

A chess engine written in Python with no dependencies.

Note

This project is under active development and you may run into bugs, especially in the game loop.

Features

• Internal bitboard representation

• Alpha-beta pruned search

• Move generation API

• Opening book

• PGN parsing

Usage

Installation

See Usage & Installation for detailed installation instructions.

Install using pip:

$ pip install chessengine

Start a game with the computer -

$ chessengine play

Start a game from source code -

$ python -m chessengine play

If you want to play against another player -

$ chessengine play -p

or

$ python -m chessengine play -p

Table Of Contents

• API Reference
  • chessengine.bitboard
  • chessengine.exceptions
  • chessengine.lookup_tables
  • chessengine.moves
  • chessengine.utils
  • chessengine.pgn.node
  • chessengine.pgn.parser
  • Summary
• Internal Board Representation
  • Available Attributes
  • Representing Positions On The Board
• Usage & Installation
  • Installing Locally For Development
• Playing A Game
  • Making Moves On The Board
• Contributing A Patch

Indices and tables

• Index

• Module Index

• Search Page