A chess library for PHP.

Via composer:

$ composer require chesslablab/php-chess

Variants:

• Chess\Game::VARIANT_960
• Chess\Game::VARIANT_CAPABLANCA_80
• Chess\Game::VARIANT_CAPABLANCA_100
• Chess\Game::VARIANT_CLASSICAL

Modes:

• Chess\Game::MODE_ANALYSIS
• Chess\Game::MODE_GM
• Chess\Game::MODE_FEN
• Chess\Game::MODE_PGN
• Chess\Game::MODE_PLAY
• Chess\Game::MODE_STOCKFISH

use Chess\Game;

$game = new Game(
    Game::VARIANT_CLASSICAL,
    Game::MODE_ANALYSIS
);

$game->play('w', 'e4');
$game->play('b', 'e5');

$game->play returns true or false depending on whether or not a move can be made in Portable Game Notation (PGN) format. The Universal Chess Interface (UCI) protocol is supported as well as the long algebraic notation.

$game->playLan('w', 'e2e4');
$game->playLan('b', 'e7e5');

Read the latest docs here.

Check out this demo.

The GNU General Public License.

See the contributing guidelines.

Happy learning and coding! Thank you, and keep it up.