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PyChess - a chess client for Linux/Windows
https://pychess.github.io/
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How to use the pychess engine in other chess clients? #1871

Closed puspamadak closed 4 years ago

puspamadak commented 4 years ago

I am quite impressed by the pychess engine due to its difficulty level. Now, I want to use the pychess engine with other GUI frontends. Can I do that or is the engine tightly integrated with this software?

gbtami commented 4 years ago

It can be used with any GUI supporting CECP(Xboard) protocol. You can create the latest one from git running the create-engine.sh script. It will produce so-called python executable zip archive named pychess-engine. You can run it with python3 (or pypy3).

tamas@tami:~/pychess$ python3 pychess-engine
# PyChess 1.0.3 [python3 3.6.9]
xboard
protover 2
feature ping=1 setboard=1 playother=1 san=1 usermove=1 time=1 draw=1 sigint=0 sigterm=0 reuse=1 analyze=1 myname="PyChess 1.0.3" variants="normal,wildcastle,nocastle,fischerandom,crazyhouse,light-brigade,losers,suicide,giveaway,horde,atomic,racingkings,seirawan,kingofthehill,3check,placement,asean,cambodian,makruk,sittuyin" colors=0 ics=0 name=0 pause=0 nps=0 debug=1 memory=0 smp=0 egt="gaviota" option="skipPruneChance -slider 0 0 100"
feature done=1
puspamadak commented 4 years ago

Thanks a lot !

gbtami commented 4 years ago

Your welcome!