ChessLib is/will be written in C++.

ChessLib will run under Unix and Windows. Maybe other systems will be supported.

ChessLib provides chess data types like chessboards, moves or games and a lot of algorithms. Examples for the algorithms are

• parsing of FEN-Strings and ICS-Strings (= "style 12" on internet chess servers)
• reading and writing PGN-Games, PGN-repair function (PGN games with ambiguous moves)
• parsing of the "ICS protocol"
• opening books, endgame tables (from crafty) for chess enginges
• formating of chess games or positions (to TeX or Povray)
• chess board widget for wxWindows or TVision for displaying and editing chess positions.
• move generator
• huffman compression of chessboards (for big databases)
• ...

With ChessLib some programs will be developed.

• ChessBoard - an interface to internet chess servers (and maybe a chess database frontend).
• a chess engine
• some ics bots

• of course g++
• STL - Standard Template Library
• wxWindows - for GUI related things
• TrueType Chess Fonts
• TeX - for printing diagrams and games
• Povray - for nice 3D Boards (hm, not for realtime 3D Boards ;-)
• TVision - Console chess boards
• readline - readline rules
• ChessLib uses lemon+re2c, (similar to bison+flex).
  lemon+re2c generates C++ code, so you only need this code, which is in the ChessLib package (or in CVS).
  TODO: add a link to the patched lemon template file (for C++).

ChessBoard with some TrueType fonts

Here the text interface:

• My old programs dboard and sebi. A xboard extension and a ncurses interface (written for my brother). The later uses a german piece set (K=King, D=Queen, T=Rook, L=Bishop, S=Knight, B=Pawn). Mail me for an english version. [german link]
• freechess.org - a free internet chess server
• gics - the only german internet chess server
• Tobias Wahl - Tobias came up with the idea of a chess toolkit.
• sourceforge.net

soon you'll see here more links...