chess-board

What is chess-board?

chess-board is a Python chessboard package with a flexible "just a board" API for graphically representing game positions.

What chess-board is not

• A chess engine
• A legal move validator
• A PGN parser

While chess-board is designed to work well with any of these, the idea behind chess-board is that the logic that controls the board should be independent of those other problems.

Entry Points

from chessboard import display

valid_fen = 'rnbqkbnr/pp1ppppp/8/2p5/4P3/5N2/PPPP1PPP/RNBQKB1R b KQkq - 1 2'

# Initialization
game_board = display.start()

# Position change/update
display.update(valid_fen, game_board)

# Checking GUI window for QUIT event. (Esc or GUI CANCEL)
display.check_for_quit()

# Close window
display.terminate()

Usage

test.py - example

from chessboard import display

valid_fen = 'rnbqkbnr/pp1ppppp/8/2p5/4P3/5N2/PPPP1PPP/RNBQKB1R b KQkq - 1 2'

game_board = display.start()

while True:
    display.check_for_quit()
    display.update(valid_fen, game_board)

    # board flip interface
    if not game_board.flipped:
        display.flip(game_board)

Installation

Download and install the latest release:

# install into virtualenv
source env/bin/activate
pip install chess-board

or 

# install with pipenv
pipenv install chess-board

or

# install system-wide
pip install chess-board

Alternatively, you could git clone this repo and add the directory to your package.

git clone https://github.com/ahira-justice/chess-board.git

Dependencies

pygame==2.1.2

chess-board installation automatically installs latest pygame version.

License

GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE