awesome-chess

Chess toolkit

A curated collection of chess-related assets and tools for building chess applications

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Awesome Chess / Books
Chess Problems Collection of chess puzzles
Chess strategy HTML version of chess strategy by Edward Lasker
Sicilian Dragon Attacking plans for black

Awesome Chess / FEN Parsers
fenparser by tlehman 15 over 10 years ago A parser for Forsyth-Edwards Notation wriitten in Python
fen by ucarion 4 over 1 year ago A Rust Forsyth-Edwards notation parser with proper error handling
fen-diagram by andyherbert JavaScript for generating chess diagrams using Forsyth-Edwards notation

Awesome Chess / Bots
latrunculorum 13 over 10 years ago A simple chess bot in Python
Chessbot Bot written in Java

Awesome Chess / Move Validators
chess.js 3,750 about 1 year ago chess.js, Structured code for chess authentication
npm chess package An algebraic notation driven chess engine that can validate board position and produce a list of viable moves
Chessnut Chessnut is a simple chess board model written in Python. It provides functionality of parsing FEN and generating a list of legal moves for each FEN representation

Awesome Chess / Websites
multiplayerchess.com A simple single page chess playing application facilitating the play of chess
lichess.org One of the most mature platforms for playing chess on the internet. It is open source too. It is equipped with daily puzzles and an TV to spectate other matches
chess24.com Play as well as learn chess from chess24 with the best of tutorials
chessbase.com Lucrative, single page application for playing chess
chess.com Learn and play chess with over 5 million other users
chesscademy.com Watch videos, solve puzzles, and play games. All for free. (Works similar to Khan Academy.)
chesstempo.com Online chess tactics training site
chessprogramming.wikispaces.com Repository of information about programming computers to play chess
freechess.org The 'Free Internet Chess Server' (FICS) is one of the oldest Internet chess servers. There are lots of client applications for almost every device, operation system or webbrowser available

Awesome Chess / Boards
Chessboard.js 2,032 over 1 year ago chessboard.js is a standalone JavaScript chess board
chess-board 20 over 5 years ago A web component for displaying chess positions. It takes FEN string as input and renders the board as output
jchess 83 about 10 years ago A jQuery based JavaScript library for parsing and displaying chess games. Currently takes FEN and PGN as inputs
Chessboard-js 33 about 7 years ago A responsive mobile-first JavaScript chessboard library

Awesome Chess / Board Notations
FEN A FEN "record" defines a particular game position, all in one text line and using only the ASCII character set
PNG PGN is structured "for easy reading and writing by human users and for easy parsing and generation by computer programs."

Awesome Chess / Board Notations / Other Notations
Algebraic Chess Notation
ICCF numeric notation Official chess game notation for all International Correspondence Chess Federation games
Smith Chess Notation
Descriptive Notation

Awesome Chess / Pieces
Spiral Pieces in 3-D
Pieces on Wikipedia
Chess Pieces in Unicode
Icons on flaticons
Icons on thenounproject

Awesome Chess / Talks
Understanding Chess Mastery -Talk on understanding chess mastery by Jennifer Shahade
How Chess Can Revolutionize Learning Talk on how chess can revolutionize learning by Cody Pomeranz
Working backward to solve problems Talk on working backward to solve problems by Maurice Ashley
Chess Life
Why Chess is Boring Talk on why chess is boring by Bobby Fischer
Chess Peeps

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