Kokopu documentation
Kokopu is a JavaScript library for chess applications. It implements the chess game rules, and provides tools to read/write the standard chess file formats (PGN, FEN, UCI, etc.).
https://www.npmjs.com/package/kokopu
Installation
- For use within a browser: download the package
and include either file
kokopu.jsor filekokopu.min.jsin your HTML page. - For Node.js:
npm install kokopu
Main classes and functions
- Position: this class represents a chess position, i.e. the state of a 64-square chessboard with a few additional information (who is about to play, castling rights, en-passant rights). It exposes methods to generate the moves that can be played in the position, to check whether the position is check, checkmate or stalemate, to generate the FEN representation of the position, etc...
- Game: this class represents a chess game, with the move history, the position at each step of the game, the comments and annotations (if any), the result of the game, and some meta-data such as the name of the players, the date of the game, the name of the tournament, etc...
- Function pgnRead allows to parse a PGN file: this method returns Game objects representing the content of the file.
- Function pgnWrite allows to generate the PGN string corresponding to a Game object or an array of Game objects.
Example
var kokopu = require('kokopu');
// Create a new position, play some moves...
var position = new kokopu.Position();
position.play('e4');
position.play('e5');
position.play('Nf3');
// Display an ASCII-art representation of the position.
console.log(position.ascii());
// +---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+
// | r | n | b | q | k | b | n | r |
// +---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+
// | p | p | p | p | | p | p | p |
// +---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+
// | | | | | | | | |
// +---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+
// | | | | | p | | | |
// +---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+
// | | | | | P | | | |
// +---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+
// | | | | | | N | | |
// +---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+
// | P | P | P | P | | P | P | P |
// +---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+
// | R | N | B | Q | K | B | | R |
// +---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+
// b KQkq -
// List the available moves.
var moves = position.moves();
console.log(moves.map(function(move) { return position.notation(move); }));
// [ 'a6', 'a5', 'b6', 'b5', 'c6', 'c5', 'd6','d5', 'f6', 'f5', 'g6', 'g5', 'h6', 'h5', 'Na6', 'Nc6',
// 'Qe7', 'Qf6', 'Qg5', 'Qh4', 'Ke7', 'Be7', 'Bd6', 'Bc5', 'Bb4', 'Ba3', 'Nf6', 'Nh6', 'Ne7' ]
Or within a browser:
<script src="kokopu.js"></script>
<script>
var position = new kokopu.Position();
position.play('e4');
position.play('e5');
// etc...
</script>