python-chess-toc 0.1.1

Create a graphical table of contents for chess games with engine analysis

python-chess-toc

Create a graphical table of contents for chess games with engine analysis

The chesstoc package takes a PGN file and generates an HTML file with a graphical table of contents for the PGN file. Each table entry is a board with the final position for a game, superimposed with the plot of the engine evaluation function.

For example,

python3 -m chesstoc --time 1.0 --html candidates.html candidates.pgn --col 2

analyzes the games from candidates.pgn, spending one second per move, and produces an HTML file with a two-column table that looks like this:

Installation

pip install python-chess-toc

Dependencies

• python 3
• python-chess
• jinja2
• matplotlib
• svgutils
• a UCI chess engine (only tested with Stockfish)

Acknowledgements

Many thanks to the authors of all the packages above. The present package is merely a thin layer of glue that gets python-chess to do the parsing, talking to the engine, and board rendering, and then feeds the numbers into matplotlib and svgutils to produce the figures, and finally uses jinja2 to generate the HTML. Also, I borrowed the opening database from https://github.com/niklasf/eco and borrowed some ideas from https://github.com/rpdelaney/python-chess-annotator.

License

python-chess-toc is licensed under the GPL 3 (or any later version at your option). Check out LICENSE.txt for the full text.