Fast haskell chess move generator library and console UCI frontend
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 main module provided by the library is
Game.Chess,
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
and moves in Algebraic
Notation).
Module
Game.Chess.UCI
provides functionality to run an external process which understands the
Universal Chess Interface protocol from within Haskell.
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.