https://github.com/mlang/chessio

Fast haskell chess move generator library and console UCI frontend
https://github.com/mlang/chessio

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Fast haskell chess move generator library and console UCI frontend

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/mlang/chessio
• Owner: mlang
• License: bsd-3-clause
• Created: 2019-03-26T21:47:17.000Z (almost 6 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2024-12-12T12:23:39.000Z (22 days ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-12-25T13:10:26.008Z (9 days ago)
• Topics: boardgames, chess, chess-game, console, haskell
• Language: Haskell
• Homepage: https://hackage.haskell.org/package/chessIO
• Size: 46.5 MB
• Stars: 31
• Watchers: 7
• Forks: 6
• Open Issues: 4
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.md
  • Changelog: ChangeLog.md
  • License: LICENSE

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# A Haskell chess library and console UCI frontend program

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`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](https://hackage.haskell.org/package/chessIO/docs/Game-Chess.html),

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](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forsyth%E2%80%93Edwards_Notation)

and moves in [Algebraic

Notation](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algebraic_notation_(chess)).

Module

[Game.Chess.UCI](https://hackage.haskell.org/package/chessIO/docs/Game-Chess-UCI.html)

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`.