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

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

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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 PENGARUH KARTU MISTERI DALAM MODEL PEMBELAJARAN TGT TERHADAP HASIL BELAJAR TEMATIK SISWA 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.

Keywords: Chess, PGN parser, Graph theory, The Romanian Căluş: Symbol of National Identity Game theory, Mathematica.