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Python,
a general-purpose, high-level programming language, supporting object-oriented, imperative, functional, procedural, and reflective programming paradigms, conceived and implemented by Guido van Rossum in the late 80s. Python features a dynamic type system and automatic memory management and has a large standard library ¹. While used as scripting language along with a Python interpreter available for many operating systems, Python code can be packaged into standalone executable programs ².

Python Engines

• Category Python

Python Chess Tools

• Chess Artist
• Chess Game Analyzer
• python-chess
• Shatranj (Toolkit)

Python GUIs

• glChess
• PyChess

Selected Publications

• Sam Tannous (2007). Avoiding Rotated Bitboards with Direct Lookup. ICGA Journal, Vol. 30, No. 2, arXiv:0704.3773 » Hashing Dictionaries

Forum Posts

2007 ...

• Python PGN reader and opening databases by Harald Lüßen, CCC, November 11, 2007

2010 ...

• Python chess engine by Dann Corbit, CCC, September 21, 2010
• LMR at CUT nodes can be arbitrarily bad! by Michel Van den Bergh, CCC, June 20, 2013 » Late Move Reductions, Node Types ³
• Re: PGN to FEN (with Evaluation)? by Matthew Lai, CCC, December 29, 2014 » Portable Game Notation, Forsyth-Edwards Notation

2015 ...

• Re: Static evaluation test posistions by Ferdinand Mosca, CCC, November 26, 2015 » Engine Testing
• cutechess-cli in python by Lucas Braesch, CCC, June 16, 2016 » Cutechess-cli
• A PGN parser by Marco Costalba, CCC, October 23, 2016 » Portable Game Notation
• Python script for TTM by Lucas Braesch, CCC, October 28, 2016 » Texel's Tuning Method
• Re: Texel tuning method question by Ferdinand Mosca, CCC, July 20, 2017 » Texel's Tuning Method
• Connect 4 AlphaZero implemented using Python... by Steve Maughan, CCC, January 29, 2018 » AlphaZero, Connect Four

2020 ...

• Python chess engine by Elias Nilsson, CCC, November 27, 2020 » Affinity Chess

External Links

General Purpose

• Python (programming language) from Wikipedia
• PyPy from Wikipedia
• CPython from Wikipedia
• Welcome to Python.org
• Python Release Python 3.7.4 | Python.org
• Python2orPython3 - Python Wiki
• Overview — Python 3.7.4 documentation
• The Python Standard Library — Python 3.7.4 documentation

Artificial Intelligence

• PythonForArtificialIntelligence - Python Wiki
• Faster deep learning with GPUs and Theano by Manojit Nandi, August 05, 2015 » GPU, Deep Learning
• How to build your own AlphaZero AI using Python and Keras by David Foster, January 26, 2018 » AlphaZero, Connect Four ⁴
• Keras from Wikipedia
• Theano (software) from Wikipedia

Chess

• niklasf/python-chess · GitHub by Niklas Fiekas » python-chess
• Chess-Tools/epd2uci.py at master · Mk-Chan/Chess-Tools · GitHub by Manik Charan to test UCI engines over epd collections
• Tag Chess from Pygame

ChessBoard Library from Pygame

• Package chess by Hugh S. Myers ⁵

References