Function reference • chess

Game Utilities for creating and navigating games
`game()`	Create a new game
`move()`	Make moves and create variations
`root()`	Get the root node of a game
`forward()`	Advance in the game tree, playing next move from current branch
`back()`	Go back in the game tree, reverting the last move from current branch
`variations()`	Get all variations for next move (the children of current node)
`variation()`	Follow variation of a move, playing its first move
`%>%`	Pipe operator
Analysis Utilities for the Stockfish engine
`fish_configure()`	Configure and start Stockfish engine
`fish_move()`	Have Stockfish play the next move
Annotations Utilities for adding and exporting game annotations
`nag()`	Parse Numeric Annotation Glyph (NAG) of a move
`note()`	Get comment for a move
PGN Utilities for reading and writing games
`read_game()`	Read a game from a PGN
`write_game()`	Save a game as an PGN
`pgn()`	Get PGN for node of a game
Printing and plotting Utilities for printing and plotting
`print(<chess.Board>)`	Print board
`print(<chess.pgn.GameNode>)`	Print game node
`print(<chess.pgn.Variations>)`	Print a list of variations
`plot(<chess.pgn.GameNode>)`	Plot rendering of the board
`write_svg()`	Save an SVG with rendering of the board
Python Utilities for using Python
`install_chess()`	Install python-chess
Meta Utilities for getting information about the state of the game
`fen()`	Get FEN representation of board
`turn()`	Get whose turn it is
`move_number()`	Get number of move
`ply_number()`	Get number of ply
`halfmove_clock()`	Get number of half-moves since the last capture or pawn move
`result()`	Get result of the game ("*" if it hasn't ended)
`moves()`	Get all legal moves available
`is_checkmate()` `is_check()` `is_game_over()` `is_stalemate()` `is_insufficient_material()` `is_seventyfive_moves()` `is_fivefold_repetition()` `is_repetition()` `can_claim_draw()` `can_claim_fifty_moves()` `can_claim_threefold_repetition()` `has_en_passant()`	Get information about the current board
`gives_check()` `is_en_passant()` `is_capture()` `is_zeroing()` `is_irreversible()` `is_castling()` `is_kingside_castling()` `is_queenside_castling()`	Get information about the current board given a move
`has_insufficient_material()` `has_castling_rights()` `has_kingside_castling_rights()` `has_queenside_castling_rights()`	Get information about the current board given a color

Reference

Game

Analysis

Annotations

PGN

Printing and plotting

Python

Meta