chessIO: Basic chess library
A simple and fast library for generating legal chess moves. Also includes a module for communication with external processes that speak the UCI (Universal Chess Interface) protocol, a PGN parser/pretty printer, and Polyglot opening book support. On top of that, provides a console frontend program (cboard) that can be used to interactively play against UCI engines.
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[back to package description]A Haskell chess library and console UCI frontend program
chessIO is a Haskell library for working with chess positions and moves,
and a console frontend program (cboard) to work with UCI compatible
chess engines.
The Library
The main module provided by the library is Game.Chess, which defines data types and functions for working with chess positions and moves. It offers a fully compliant move generator and parsing for and printing positions in Forsyth-Edwards Notation and moves in Algebraic Notation.
Module Game.Chess.UCI provides functionality to run an external process which understands the Universal Chess Interface protocol from within Haskell.
Console frontend for the Universal Chess Interface protocl
cboard is a simple console (text-mode) frontend for interacting with
chess engines (like stockfish or glaurung) which make use of the UCI
protocol.
To launch a chess engine, simply pass its executable name and arguments
to cboard. For instance, cboard stockfish.