chester 0.0.1

Chess Engine Tester - A simple interface to play chess engines against each other, including tournaments.

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Chester - Chess Engine Tester

chester is a Python package that aims to provide a simple interface for running chess matches between computer chess programs (referred to as engines). It makes it easy to play 1v1 matches of any length, including running tournaments between a large set of engines.

Note: This is not yet complete.

Alternatives

The most mentioned alternative to this is cutechess. The downside of cutechess is that it is less portable, and depends on the Qt framework. This has its benefits, but also means a lot of dependencies. This project aims to be much more portable, and just depending on a compatible version of Python. It does not, however, have any intentions of becoming feature complete and supporting everything imaginable. Its aim is to provide a simple way to do a simple task - testing chess engines against each other.