uci-net 1.2.5

Universal Chess Interface client-server conversation

Contents

• Description

• Installation Instructions

• Run

• Notes

Description

This package provides a pure Python client-server Universal Chess Interface to a chess engine intended for analysing positions rather than playing games.

Installation Instructions

This package is available on PyPI so can be installed by typing

python -m pip install –user uci-net

at the command prompt.

See Python and pip documentation for alternatives and platform-specific points.

Run

The command to run the server is:

python -m uci_net.tcp_driver [port] [allowed callers] path [options]

A path to a UCI chess engine must be given.

See chess engine documentation for options.

By default anyone is allowed to use the server, subject to firewall restrictions. A comma separated list of hostnames in <allowed callers> prevents hosts not in the list from using the server.

Conections to the server are made on port ‘port’. The default is 11111.

Assuming a hostname ‘stockfishbox’ with IP address 192.168.0.1 and the default port, suitable engine definition records in ChessTab are:

‘//stockfishbox:11111?name=Stockfish 12’ or ‘//192.168.0.1:11111?name=Stockfish 12’.

The record says ‘name=Stockfish 12’ because ‘Stockfish 12’ is the ‘id name’ value returned by Stockfish 12 in response to the ‘uci’ command.

The client is run by applications such as ChessTab when required.

Notes

Project name and package name changed from ‘uci’ to ‘uci-net’ prior to upload to PyPI.

The version numbers of uci-net continue on from uci.