Pgn Python Packages

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

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

esca

Rust/Python MIT chess library: rules, facts, explanations, PGN, opening books and names, UCI client, and an MCP server over it; one API, Chess960 throughout.

libscid

libscid: chess applications made easy

bulletchess

A high performance Python C extension for chess

chess-esca-mcp

Rust/Python MIT chess library: rules, facts, explanations, PGN, opening books and names, UCI client, and an MCP server over it; one API, Chess960 throughout.

pgn-to-sqlite

Pull your Chess games from chess.com and lichess.org into a sqlite3 database.

chess-gif

Python library for converting PGN to GIFs

chess-scoresheet-generator

Generate chess score sheets from PGN files in PDF or JPG

pypgn

A Python library for easy parsing of PGN (Portable Game Notation) files.

chess-classification

Deep learning in FEN’s win / loss evaluation.

pgn2data

A library that converts a chess pgn file into a tabulated CSV data set.

chessdotcom-export

Export your chess.com/lichess.org games using their APIs

pgn-tokenizer

A byte pair encoding (BPE) tokenizer for chess portable game notation (PGN)

pgn-filter

A small program to query for games inside PGN documents

pgn-parser

A Python Parser for .pgn chess games.

python-chess-bughouse

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

chess-export

Export your chess.com/lichess.org games using their APIs

chesstree

A command-line tool for converting chess games between PGN, JSON, EDN, GraphViz DOT, and interactive HTML formats.

pgn-to-gif

Generate GIFs of chess games from PGN files