steinitz

A chess interface to fics with support for stockfish to analyze moves.

I always was enthusiasmed with chess, i played years on fics. Fics is a nice server although it is a well known fact that there exists the worse kind of cheaters. They use engine to get off bad positions all time.

As going through the game entirely then checking my opponent players move is massive, i thought of implementing steinitz that is a complete chess interface to fics. Steinitz permits you to check the next move of your opponent with stockfish actually.

Steinitz stockfish plugin permits you to score your opponent move and your move when it is played. Such a tool permits you to improve your tactical skills.

With steinitz, ironically it is possible to tell stockfish to play for you. It is useful when examining games on fics. You could examine of your games then ask stockfish for which was the best move at a given position.

It is true that it gives you opportunity to cheat but it will not make you a great player nor enjoy the truely sense of chess that is: on the board you can't lie to yourself.

Install

It is first need to install the chess engine stockfish. After installing stockfish for your system just install steinitz with:

pip install -r requirements.txt
pip install steinitz

It will install a python script named snz. In order to run steinitz just execute that script.

Note: Steinitz runs on python3+ only.

snz

It would launch steinitz application.