Chess-Rep

A module to represent chess positions and more:

• generate list of legal moves for the current position
• parse moves in various notations
• determine position state (is check? mate? stalemate?)
• convert current position to FEN at any time
• reset position from FEN at any time

This module is used in our online chess game at http://chess.dynarch.com/en.html Come and play, it's all free. ;-)

See the POD for proper documentation.

INSTALLATION

To install this module, run the following commands:

perl Makefile.PL
make
make test
make install

SUPPORT AND DOCUMENTATION

After installing, you can find documentation for this module with the perldoc command.

perldoc Chess::Rep

You can also look for information at:

Search CPAN

http://search.cpan.org/dist/Chess-Rep

CPAN Request Tracker:

http://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/Bugs.html?Dist=Chess-Rep

AnnoCPAN, annotated CPAN documentation:

http://annocpan.org/dist/Chess-Rep

CPAN Ratings:

http://cpanratings.perl.org/d/Chess-Rep

COPYRIGHT AND LICENCE

Copyright (C) 2008 Mihai Bazon

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.