Chess4p

A chess library inspired by the high quality Python module python-chess.

Features include

* Legal moves
* Board state handling
* Perft testing
* UCI move format

Planned enhancements

* SAN move input/output
* PGN parsing

Only 64-bit systems are supported, due to heavy use of the 'bitboard' data type.


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 Chess4p

You can also look for information at:

    RT, CPAN's request tracker (report bugs here)
        https://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/Bugs.html?Dist=Chess4p

    CPAN Ratings
        https://cpanratings.perl.org/d/Chess4p

    Search CPAN
        https://metacpan.org/release/Chess4p

    Codeberg:
        https://codeberg.org/ejner/chess4p


LICENSE AND COPYRIGHT

This software is Copyright (c) 2026 by Ejner Borgbjerg.

This is free software, licensed under:

  The Artistic License 2.0 (GPL Compatible)