Awesome Chess

Chess-related awesome list.

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

Contents

1. Chess engines
2. Chess computers
3. Books
4. Organizations
5. FIDE
6. National chess federations
7. Notations
8. Pieces
9. Chess boards
10. Move's validations
11. Projects
12. Websites
13. Other
14. Other types
15. Conferences
16. Tournaments
17. Code of Conduct

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.
• 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.

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

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.
• Russian Chess Federation - Russian Chess Federation (English lang. site).
• 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.

Africa:

• ACC - African Chess Confederation.

Australia (Oceania):

• ACF - The Australian Chess Federation.

Notations

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

Pieces

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

Chess boards

• chessboard-js - Repo on GitHub.
• chessboardjs - Repo on GitHub.
• jchess - Repo on GitHub.
• chess-board - Repo on GitHub.

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
• angular-chessboard
• PyChess - A chess client for Linux/Windows.

Websites

• chess24.com
• chess.com
• lichess.org
• freechess.org
• kurnik.pl/szachy
• ichess
• chesscorner
• chessgames
• worldchess.com - Official FIDE broadcasting platform.
• checkmatecoronavirus - Chess tournaments online.

Other

• Ratings - International Chess Federation
• 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
• CarlsenBot
• 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).

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

Tournaments

• Tata Steel Chess - An annual chess tournament held in January in Wijk aan Zee, the Netherlands.

Contributing

Warmly welcome! Kindly go through Contribution Guidelines first.

Code of Conduct

See Code of Conduct.