wangzigeng2004/pychess-variants

Chess variants server

PyChess-Variants

PyChess-Variants is a free, open-source chess server designed to play chess variants.

Currently supported games are:

• Makruk
• Makpong
• Ouk Chatrang
• Sittuyin
• Shogi
• Minishogi
• Kyoto shogi
• Dobutsu shogi
• Xiangqi
• Manchu
• Janggi
• Minixiangqi
• Placement chess
• Crazyhouse
• Atomic
• S-chess
• Capablanca
• Gothic
• Grand
• Shako
• Shogun
• Orda
• Synochess
• Hoppel-Poppel
• S-house (S-chess+Crazyhouse)
• Capahouse (Capablanca+Crazyhouse)
• Grandhouse (Grand chess+Crazyhouse)
• Standard chess

Additionally you can check Chess960 option in for Standard, Crazyhouse, Atomic, S-chess, Capablanca and Capahouse to start games from random positions with Chess960 castling rules

For move generation, validation, analysis and engine play it uses

• Fairy-Stockfish Python3 bindings fork of Fairy-Stockfish
• fairyfishnet fork of fishnet
• lichess-bot-variants fork of lichess-bot

On client side it is based on chessgroundx fork of chessground

As you know, pychess-variants is a free server and it will remain free forever. However, maintaining and improving the server costs time and money.

If you like our work and find our server useful, please donate through patreon or directly through paypal!! Your contribution will be greatly appreciated and help me continue to develop this awesome server.

Installation

Prerequisites

• Mongo daemon (You need mongodb up and running)

Project setup

pip3 install -r requirements.txt --user
yarn install
yarn gulp prod

Start server

python3 server/server.py