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Awesome-Chess! 
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Awesome Chess / Translations | |||
| English | 44 | over 1 year ago | |
| Polish | 44 | over 1 year ago | |
Awesome Chess / Chess engines | |||
| Stochfish Chess | Strong open source chess engine | ||
| Stochfish Chess Repo | 11,439 | 14 days ago | UCI chess engine. Repo on GitHub |
| Fritz | A German chess program originally developed for Chessbase by Frans Morsch based on his Quest program, ported to DOS, and then Windows by Mathias Feist | ||
| GNU Chess | A free software chess engine which plays a full game of chess against a human being or other computer program. The goal of GNU Chess is to serve as a basis for research. It has been used in numerous research contexts | ||
| Leela Chess Zero | 2,423 | 12 days ago | A free, open-source, and neural network-based chess engine and distributed computing project |
Awesome Chess / Chess computers | |||
| Deep Blue | Chess-playing computer developed by IBM. It is known for being the first computer chess-playing system to win both a chess game and a chess match against a reigning world champion under regular time controls. (quick update 2023-2-4: 403 Forbidden) | ||
| AlphaZero | AlphaZero is a computer program developed by artificial intelligence research company DeepMind to master the games of chess, shogi and go. Chessprogramming wiki on AlphaZero | ||
Awesome Chess / Books | |||
| official-stockfish/books | 155 | 7 months ago | Chess books used to develop Stockfish |
| Chess Strategy | The Project Gutenberg EBook of Chess Strategy, by Edward Lasker | ||
Awesome Chess / FIDE | |||
| FIDE | The Fédération Internationale des Échecs (translated as International Chess Federation or World Chess Federation) | ||
| FIDE Handbook | Handbook by FIDE | ||
| FIDE World Cup | Official site of the FIDE World Cup | ||
Awesome Chess / Notations | |||
| PGN | Portable Game Notation | ||
| AN | Algebraic notation | ||
Awesome Chess / Pieces | |||
| Chess symbols in Unicode | Wikipedia site about chess symbols | ||
| PNG chess pieces | Wikimedia.org about PNG chess pieces | ||
Awesome Chess / Chess boards | |||
| chessboard-js | 32 | about 6 years ago | Repo on GitHub, responsive mobile-first JavaScript chessboard library |
| chessboardjs | 2,002 | 6 months ago | JavaScript chessboard, repo on GitHub |
| jchess | 83 | about 9 years ago | A jQuery-based JavaScript library for parsing and displaying chess games, repo on GitHub |
| chess-board | 20 | over 4 years ago | A web component for displaying chess positions, repo on GitHub |
Awesome Chess / Chess clocks | |||
| Chess Clock | Chess clock by Chess.com on Google Play | ||
| Chess clock | Chess clock by Online Stopwatch | ||
| Chess timer | Chess timer by TimeMe | ||
| Chess-Clock | 2 | over 10 years ago | Well-prepared chess timer by Tuhaj which helps during play of board games like chess or scrabble |
Awesome Chess / Move's validations | |||
| chess.js | 3,683 | 2 months ago | A JavaScript chess library for chess move generation/validation, piece placement/movement, and check/checkmate/draw detection |
| node-chess | An algebraic notation driven chess engine that can validate board position and produce a list of viable moves (notated) | ||
Awesome Chess / Projects | |||
| angular-chess | 33 | over 7 years ago | Chess directive for AngularJS |
| angular-chessboard | 9 | almost 9 years ago | Chessboard directive for AngularJS |
| PyChess | 695 | 10 days ago | A chess client for Linux/Windows |
| FlutterChess | 51 | about 6 years ago | A concept chess app for Flutter |
| AndroidChessClock | 8 | over 5 years ago | Simple chess clock for Android |
| Lila | 15,444 | 7 days ago | A free online chess game server focused on realtime gameplay and ease of use |
| Chess Alpha Zero | 2,126 | over 1 year ago | Chess reinforcement learning by AlphaGo Zero methods |
| python-chess | 2,414 | 9 days ago | A chess library for Python, with move generation and validation, PGN parsing and writing, Polyglot opening book reading, Gaviota tablebase probing, Syzygy tablebase probing, and UCI/XBoard engine communication |
| Lichobile | 2,030 | 4 months ago | Lichess.org mobile application |
| Game Server | 1,163 | 29 days ago | Distributed Java game server, including cluster management server, gateway server, hall server, game logic server, background monitoring server and a running web version of fishing. State machine, behavior tree, A* pathfinding, navigation mesh and other AI tools |
| Tensorflow_chessbot | 516 | about 1 year ago | Predict chessboard FEN layouts from images using TensorFlow |
| Command Line Chess | 499 | 5 months ago | A Python program to play chess against an AI in the terminal |
Awesome Chess / Websites | |||
| chess24.com | Free live chess with humans or computers, watch games, chat and join tournaments | ||
| chess.com | The chess community with +30 million members around the world | ||
| lichess.org | Lichess is a free and open-source Internet chess server run by a non-profit organization of the same name | ||
| freechess.org | Free Internet Chess Server (FICS) | ||
| kurnik.pl/szachy | Games online, chess section | ||
| ichess | Chess courses & videos | ||
| chesscorner | Chess site created by a chess enthusiast for chess enthusiasts, especially those new to this fascinating game | ||
| chessgames | Online PGN chess game database and chess learning community | ||
| worldchess.com | Official FIDE broadcasting platform | ||
| checkmatecoronavirus | Chess tournaments online | ||
| chessmatec.com | Chess for Kids, an all-in-one chess learning platform for kids (endorsed by the FIDE) | ||
| chesslang | A platform for chess academies | ||
| infoszach | Site with news about chess (Polish lang.) | ||
| ChessBase | Reports about chess - tournaments, championships, portraits, interviews, World Championships, product launches and more | ||
| Chess-Results | The international chess tournaments results server | ||
| Chessdom | The global chess news site | ||
| ChessManager | An online app created for arbiters and chess tournament organizers | ||
| Internet Chess Club | ICC is a commercial Internet chess server devoted to the play and discussion of chess and chess variants | ||
| Playchess | A commercial Internet chess server managed by ChessBase devoted to the play and discussion of chess and chess variants | ||
| GameKnot | A news, strategy, and community site for chess players, offering multiple forms of competition via chess tournaments, ladders and more | ||
| The FIDE Online Arena | The official International Chess Federation (FIDE) gaming platform | ||
| Chessable | Site which uses science-backed learning techniques to help boost player retention | ||
| Noctie.ai | – Practice chess against a humanlike chess bot and get feedback on your play | ||
Awesome Chess / National chess federations | |||
| ECU | European Chess Union | ||
| ECF | English Chess Federation | ||
| PZSzach | The Polish Chess Federation | ||
| DSB | German Chess Federation | ||
| GCF | Georgian Chess Federation | ||
| Chess.cZ | Chess Association of the Czech Republic | ||
| FEDA | Spanish Chess Federation | ||
| MSSz | The Hungarian Chess Federation | ||
| NSF | The Norwegian Chess Federation | ||
| FSI | The Italian Chess Federation | ||
| FFE | The French Chess Federation | ||
| JCA | The Japan Chess Association | ||
| AICF | The All India Chess Federation | ||
| USCF | The United States Chess Federation | ||
| CFC | Chess Federation of Canada | ||
| ACF | The Australian Chess Federation | ||
Awesome Chess / Other | |||
| Ratings - International Chess Federation | FIDE ratings and statistics | ||
| 0x88 | A square-centric method of representing the chess board used by some chess programs | ||
| Bitboard | A bitboard is a specialized bit array data structure commonly used in computer systems that play board games | ||
| Robot Chess | Leap Motion chess game | ||
| CarlsenBot | Voice controlled chess robot | ||
| Apple Chess | A 3D chess game for macOS, developed by Apple Inc | ||
| lichess in Crowdin | Lichess' translations in Crowdin | ||
| Play Magnus | App with GM Magnus Carlsen (App Store & Google Play) | ||
| Judit Polgar | GM Judit Polgar page | ||
| Hikaru Nakamura | GM Hikaru Nakamura page | ||
| Magnus Carlsen | GM Magnus Carlsen page | ||
| Chess prodigy | Site about Chess prodigy by Wikipedia | ||
| Chess titles | Chess titles by Wikipedia | ||
| UCI Engines | List of the top UCI (Universal Chess Interface) Engines | ||
| Chess Programming Wiki | The Chess Programming Wiki is a repository of information about programming computers to play chess | ||
| 365Chess | The biggest online chess games database | ||
| Chess Journal | A free resource for chess players to learn and master the game of chess | ||
| Chess Pursuit | 260 | over 4 years ago | The project where idea was to turn the chess game upside down, making it an action game instead of a strategy game |
| Online bots - lichess.org | A human-like neural network chess engines and other | ||
Awesome Chess / Other types | |||
| Xiangqi | Called Chinese chess | ||
| Shogi | Called Japanese chess | ||
| Janggi | Called Korean chess | ||
| Makruk | Called Thai chess | ||
| Sittuyin | Also known as Burmese chess | ||
Awesome Chess / Conferences | |||
| London Chess Conference | Site of London Chess Conference | ||
Awesome Chess / Tournaments | |||
| Tata Steel Chess | An annual chess tournament held in January in Wijk aan Zee, the Netherlands | ||
| Biel International Chess Festival | Homepage of the Biel International Chess Festival | ||
| Legends of Chess | The chess24 Legends of Chess site for 2020 | ||
| FIDE Online Olympiad | FIDE Online Olympiad site | ||
| Altibox Norway Chess | One of the world's strongest chess tournament | ||
| Global Chess Festival | A prestigious chess event | ||
| EOBCC | European Online Blitz Chess Championship | ||
| Meltwater Champions Chess Tour | A series of 9 tournaments throughout 2021 with the top players of the world | ||
| TCEC | Top Chess Engine Championship is a computer chess tournament organized and maintained by Chessdom in cooperation with Chessdom Arena | ||
| GCT | The Grand Chess Tour is a circuit of chess tournaments | ||
Awesome Chess / Movies | |||
| Searching for Bobby Fischer | It is based on the life of prodigy chess player Joshua Waitzkin | ||
| Magnus | Movie about Magnus Carlsen, Norwegian chess prodigy | ||
| Bobby Fischer Against the World | A documentary feature film that explores the life of chess Grandmaster Bobby Fischer | ||
| The Queen's Gambit | An American drama television miniseries based on Walter Tevis's 1983 novel of the same name | ||
Awesome Chess / Articles | |||
| The World Chess Championship In 5 Charts | Article about the 2021 World Chess Championship on FiveThirtyEight | ||
Awesome Chess / APIs | |||
| Lichess.org API reference | Lichess.org API | ||
| Chess.com PubAPI | A read-only REST API that responds with JSON-LD data | ||
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