Open Source Python Chess Games

GCompris is a high quality educational software suite comprising of numerous activities for children aged 2 to 10. Some of the activities are game oriented, but nonetheless still educational.

Blind Chess also known as "Dark Chess" (暗棋) or "Banqi" or Half Chess , is a two-player Chinese board game played on a 4x8 grid, or half of the xiangqi (Chinese Chess) board. This application is using Taiwan rule. AI is using basic minimax tree structure and some rules. Advanced algorithm such as Upper Confidence bounds applied to Trees and Monte Carlo Tree Search are NOT used. This app is single player vs computer only. For English user, Christakis Giorgios made Software Requirements Specification(pdf file), it will help anyone that downloads this application to understand basic blind chess and use it. You can download this pdf in Files->Specification folder.

glChess is an open source 2D/3D chess interface for the GTK+/Gnome desktop. It is designed to have a clean and simple interface. Games can be played between human players and compatible 3rd party artificial intelligences.

This project is a POSIX-compliant driver for the dgt board from dgtprojects. It is intented at acting as a layer between chess engines and the dgt board.

MKGI Chess Club is a chess playing server with a pure Web interface. It features complete player profile management, full html email notification with embedded board display. It also includes an interface to match against chess engines such as gnuchess.

A Python application to edit LaTeX files containing chess problems - using the chess-problem-diagrams LaTeX-package.

BlenderChess aims at developing a Chess GUI that can be used by different Chess engines and online Chess servers.

Croatian Chess is a collection of various chess variants, starting as a simple and natural enhancement to classical chess and growing ever more complex with each new variant.

ELOcalc is a small GUI/command-line calculator designed to calculate ELO scores (for, e.g., chess).

The Felo rating system provides an objective fencing strength estimate for each individual fencer in a group, just like the Elo rating in chess. This program calculates the Felo numbers by analysing a bout result list created by the user.

Free Chess is a free, open source GPL licensed WebChess game. We have discarded the original codebase, and we will be re-factoring this project entirely from scratch. Parts of this project will also use Python language for some of the underlying core code

A cross platform chess database which supports ChessGML, PGN, SVG, PostgreSQL and plugins written in Java or Jython. Some Python chess libraries and some Python tools are included. Usable pieces are Java and Python opening classification libraries.

This is a graphical chessboard (like XBoard) for new chess variant called 'hybrids'. It is also intended to support other variants, at least the ortodox one; save/load games in PGN format; communicate to chess engines and ICS.

Kingdom Wars is a client/server chess daemon designed to run on multiple operating platforms. Both the client and the server are stand alone. The network protocal is open, and custom clients are welcome to be developed.

Trinkets for hackers. Currently: Rubik cube move series inventor. Go solver for tiny boards. Jokes converted into lateral puzzles. Turing machine enumeration Things coming: sci-fi ideas/stories, chess (endgame), etc... License GPL+GFDL

Metagame-Sector is a Python framework for quickly and easily making Sector-based games (ie, Chess, Risk, Bard's Tale, Zelda, WarCraft, Civ). Features include Client-Server model, View separation (ie, you can have a GNOME and a Win32 frontend), and more.

The Project hosted here has been closed and moved to http://www.afccommercial.co.uk/oss/psc/chessviper Thank you Berlios for all your help over the years

A minigame tournament engine that allows for playing games against other people across the internet. The project is in the planning/alpha. It only currently has an Line of Sight Chess Program.

ch0 c-h-zero the chess engine!!! How well is it possible for your processor(s) to play chess? How well is it possible for someone AND your processor(s) to play chess? Would they let it fly, or manage it actively? --> Let's evolve !!!

A simple chess engine, which should be able to become good with enough time.

A go or chess timer written in python. Go timer can be used instead of a stand alone go or chess timer when playing a game on a real life board.

Next generation chess application for GTK. With freechess.org support, unicode, SVG scalable graphics, sounds and more!

pyfics is a python library for connecting to Free Internet Chess Server(FICS) and parsing messages received. With pyfics it's easy to write bots or interfaces for FICS in python.

In knight tour (kt) problem every chess square is visited exactly once using knight moves. In this game some knight moves already made and we have an incomplete kt. The object is to complete the kt by guessing missing moves.