Open Source Perl Chess Games

pgn4web is a javascript chess games viewer for websites, blogs and live broadcasts. "pgn4web has a clean design, and is easily integrated and configured in wordpress. And yet, below that layer of simplicity, it has enough bells and whistles to allow for more baroque needs and taste. A truly great plugin." GM Tiger Hillarp, using the pgn4web plugin for wordpress on his site chess at the bag of cats, May 2013. "We wanted a live viewer that could work on tablets and mobile phones. pgn4web did fit very well on every platform, is stable and matched our visual design. Also the horizontal view for the commentators and the vertical view for smartphones was a real plus." H.S. from the Max Euwe memorial tournament committee, using pgn4web for live broadcast and game reports, November 2011.

A Perl Chess program, CamelChess

Simple tool to practise chess openings. A presentation with a screenshot is available here : http://kwartik.wordpress.com/chess-openings. Requires under windows a PERL interpretor (like strawberry PERL) and a UTF8 editor with support for chess fonts.

A Perl script which accepts a chess position (in the FEN format) as input and outputs POV-Ray source, which, when rendered by POV-Ray, produces a 3-D view of the chess position.

The source code for the free, email-based chess website Electric Chess (http://www.electricchess.net).

FicsTeamBot was designed to help with the hosting of team chess games on the Free Internet Chess Server (FICS.)

JobyX is an ICS (Internet Chess Server) robot framework that provides basic robot functionality, including commands, lists, variables, avariables, and (in the new JobyX 2) full-blown Java-like exception handling. Commands, etc, are provided by modules.

Tools for chess engines tournaments: `rr_gen' to generate a round robin tournament schedule, `rr_play' to run the matches (you can select whatever match you want to run), `rr_rank' to build a rank in different styles (std rank or crosstable)

VChess board game for playing chess via Internet.

A group of chess related programs. At the moment the following are planned: a chess board manipulator, a correspondence chess manager, a PGN to HTML converter and perhaps an ICS client. No plans for a chess *engine* - Crafty is already good enough.

The Perl 3D-extension of MFPic LaTeX package aimed to high quality draw of spatial objects, such as vectors, curves, bounded surfaces.

Robots that run on Internet Chess Servers (i.e. FICS, ICC), including VoteBot, RoomBot, BabelBot, PlayBot, AnalyzeBot, FaceBot.