The Python UCI Chess Engine Interface (PUCEI or PyUCI) allows communication with a UCI-enabled chess engine from Python 2.x

In very early stages of development.

Here is an example where we make Stockfish play itself: (see rungame.py)

from gameSession import GameSession
from engine import Engine

stockfishpath = './Stockfish/src/stockfish'
eng1 = Engine(stockfishpath)
eng2 = Engine(stockfishpath)

gamesesh = GameSession(eng1,eng2).play()

If we want the engine to play a timed game, we can use time=(start_time,increment), where all times are in milliseconds, following the UCI standard.

#Make the clock start at 5 minutes and increment the clock by 5 seconds after each turn.
GameSession(eng1,eng2,time=(300e3,5e3)).play()

or perhaps, for cleaner syntax, use minutes and seconds for the starting time and increment time, respectively.

GameSession(eng1,eng2,time=(5,5),time_unit='minsec').play()

##TODO:

• Documentation
• Comprehensive testing
• (... more stuff)

###Option integration for full UCI-standard compliance.

• Implementation of safety features for engine crashes (isready, ect.)
• Pondering
• Initizlization set options (to engine)

###Done:

• Make thing to allow use of seconds as time.
• Recognise tie games.
• Add non-unix support.