ChessY: A Mathematica toolbox for the generation, visualization and analysis of positional chess graphs

The game of chess is undoubtedly one of the most popular two-player strategy board games in history, enjoyed by casual players and competing celebrated professionals alike, and serves as prototype research subject in a vast variety of fields. Although a plethora of parsers on a large number of diffe...

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Published in:SoftwareX Vol. 9; pp. 39 - 43
Main Author: Rudolph-Lilith, Michelle
Format: Journal Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier B.V 01.01.2019
Elsevier
Subjects:
Chess
Computer Science
Computer Science and Game Theory
Game theory
Graph theory
Mathematica
Mathematical Software
PGN parser
Chess
Mathematica
Graph theory
PGN parser
Game theory
ISSN:2352-7110, 2352-7110
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Summary:The game of chess is undoubtedly one of the most popular two-player strategy board games in history, enjoyed by casual players and competing celebrated professionals alike, and serves as prototype research subject in a vast variety of fields. Although a plethora of parsers on a large number of different platforms is readily available for processing records of chess games provided in online databases, Mathematica remains, somewhat surprisingly, exempt. ChessY attempts to fill this gap, by providing a simple set of tools for handling Portable Game Notation (PGN) chess records and their translation into positional chess graphs, thus opening the door for a systematic analysis of chess games within the powerful confines of graph theory using Mathematica.
ISSN:2352-7110
2352-7110
DOI:10.1016/j.softx.2018.12.004