Awesome Chess

A curated list of assets available on the Internet related to the Western chess. “Gens una sumus”!

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Contents

• Translations
• Chess engines
• Chess computers
• Books
• Organizations
• FIDE
• Notations
• Pieces
• Chess boards
• Chess clocks
• Move’s validations
• Projects
• Websites
• National chess federations
• Other
• Other types
• Conferences
• Tournaments
• Movies
• Articles
• APIs
• Code of Conduct

Translations

• English
• Polish

Chess engines

• Stochfish Chess - Strong open source chess engine.
• Stochfish Chess Repo - 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 - A free, open-source, and neural network-based chess engine and distributed computing project.

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)
• Belle - Chess computer developed by Joe Condon (hardware) and Ken Thompson (software) at Bell Labs. In 1983, it was the first machine to achieve master-level play, with a USCF rating of 2250.
• 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.

Books

• official-stockfish/books - Chess books used to develop Stockfish.
• Chess Strategy - The Project Gutenberg EBook of Chess Strategy, by Edward Lasker.

Organizations

International:

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.

Notations

• PGN - Portable Game Notation.
• AN - Algebraic notation.

Pieces

• Chess symbols in Unicode - Wikipedia site about chess symbols.
• PNG chess pieces - Wikimedia.org about PNG chess pieces.

Chess boards

• chessboard-js - Repo on GitHub, responsive mobile-first JavaScript chessboard library.
• chessboardjs - JavaScript chessboard, repo on GitHub.
• jchess - A jQuery-based JavaScript library for parsing and displaying chess games, repo on GitHub.
• chess-board - A web component for displaying chess positions, repo on GitHub.

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 - Well-prepared chess timer by Tuhaj which helps during play of board games like chess or scrabble.

Move’s validations

• chess.js - 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).

Projects

Repos

• angular-chess - Chess directive for AngularJS.
• angular-chessboard - Chessboard directive for AngularJS.
• PyChess - A chess client for Linux/Windows.
• FlutterChess - A concept chess app for Flutter.
• AndroidChessClock - Simple chess clock for Android.
• Lila - A free online chess game server focused on realtime gameplay and ease of use.
• Chess Alpha Zero - Chess reinforcement learning by AlphaGo Zero methods.
• python-chess - 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 - Lichess.org mobile application.
• Game Server - 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 - Predict chessboard FEN layouts from images using TensorFlow.
• Command Line Chess - A Python program to play chess against an AI in the terminal.

Websites

Chess online for instance.

• 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.

National chess federations

Europe:

• 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.

Asia:

• CCA - Chinese Chess Association.
• JCA - The Japan Chess Association.
• AICF - The All India Chess Federation.

North America:

• USCF - The United States Chess Federation.
• CFC - Chess Federation of Canada.

Africa:

• ACC - African Chess Confederation.

Australia (Oceania):

• ACF - The Australian Chess Federation.

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 - 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.

Other types

• Xiangqi - Called Chinese chess.
• Shogi - Called Japanese chess.
• Janggi - Called Korean chess.
• Makruk - Called Thai chess.
• Sittuyin - Also known as Burmese chess.

Conferences

• London Chess Conference - Site of London Chess Conference.

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.

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.

Articles

• The World Chess Championship In 5 Charts - Article about the 2021 World Chess Championship on FiveThirtyEight.

APIs

• Lichess.org API reference - Lichess.org API.
• Chess.com PubAPI - A read-only REST API that responds with JSON-LD data.

Contributing

Warmly welcome! Kindly go through Contribution Guidelines first.

Code of Conduct

See Code of Conduct.