python-chess v0.8.1

Improvements in this bugfix release:

• Fixed pondering mode in uci module. For example ponderhit() was blocking
  indefinitely. Thanks to Valeriy Huz for reporting this.
• Patch by Richard C. Gerkin: Moved searchmoves to the end of the UCI go
  command, where it will not cause other command parameters to be ignored.
• Added missing check or checkmate suffix to castling SANs, e.g. O-O-O#.
• Fixed off-by-one error in polyglot opening book binary search. This would
  not have caused problems for real opening books.
• Fixed Python 3 support for reverse polyglot opening book iteration.
• Bestmoves may be literally (none) in UCI protocol, for example in
  checkmate positions. Fix parser and return None as the bestmove in this
  case.
• Fixed spelling of repetition (was repitition).
  can_claim_threefold_repetition() and is_fivefold_repetition() are the
  affected method names. Aliases are there for now, but will be removed in the
  next release. Thanks to Jimmy Patrick for reporting this.
• Added SquareSet.__reversed__().
• Use containerized tests on Travis CI, test against Stockfish 6, improved
  test coverage amd various minor clean-ups.

python-chess v0.8.0

New in this release:

• Implement Syzygy endgame tablebase probing.
  https://syzygy-tables.info is an example project that provides a public API using the new features.
• The interface for aynchronous UCI command has changed to mimic concurrent.futures. is_done() is now just done(). Callbacks will receive the command object as a single argument instead of the result. The result property and wait() have been removed in favor of a synchronously waiting result() method.
• The result of the stop and go UCI commands are now named tuples (instead of just normal tuples).
• Add alias Board for Bitboard.
• Fixed race condition during UCI engine startup. Lines received during engine startup sometimes needed to be processed before the Engine object was fully initialized.

python-chess v0.7.0

New in this release:

• Implement UCI engine communication.
• Patch by Matthew Lai: Add caching for gameNode.board().

python-chess v0.6.0

New in this release:

• If there are comments in a game before the first move, these are now assigned
  to Game.comment instead of Game.starting_comment. Game.starting_comment
  is ignored from now on. Game.starts_variation() is no longer true.
  The first child node of a game can no longer have a starting comment.
  It is possible to have a game with Game.comment set, that is otherwise
  completely empty.
• Fix export of games with variations. Previously the moves were exported in
  an unusual (i.e. wrong) order.
• Install gmpy2 or gmpy if you want to use slightly faster binary
  operations.
• Ignore superfluous variation opening brackets in PGN files.
• Add GameNode.san().
• Remove sparse_pop_count(). Just use pop_count().
• Remove next_bit(). Now use bit_scan().

python-chess v0.5.0

New in this release:

• PGN parsing is now more robust: read_game() ignores invalid tokens.
  Still exceptions are going to be thrown on illegal or ambiguous moves, but
  this behaviour can be changed by passing an error_handler argument.

  >>> # Raises ValueError:
  >>> game = chess.pgn.read_game(file_with_illegal_moves)
  
  >>> # Silently ignores errors and continues parsing:
  >>> game = chess.pgn.read_game(file_with_illegal_moves, None)
  
  >>> # Logs the error, continues parsing:
  >>> game = chess.pgn.read_game(file_with_illegal_moves, logger.exception)
  

  If there are too many closing brackets this is now ignored.

  Castling moves like 0-0 (with zeros) are now accepted in PGNs.
  The Bitboard.parse_san() method remains strict as always, though.

  Previously the parser was strictly following the PGN spefification in that
  empty lines terminate a game. So a game like

  [Event "?"]
  
  { Starting comment block }
  
  1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nf6 *
  

  would have ended directly after the starting comment. To avoid this, the
  parser will now look ahead until it finds at least one move or a termination
  marker like *, 1-0, 1/2-1/2 or 0-1.

• Introduce a new function scan_headers() to quickly scan a PGN file for
  headers without having to parse the full games.

• Minor testcoverage improvements.

python-chess v0.4.2

New in this release:

• Fix bug where pawn_moves_from() and consequently is_legal() weren't
  handling en-passant correctly. Thanks to Norbert Naskov for reporting.

python-chess v0.4.1

New in this release:

• Fix is_fivefold_repitition(): The new fivefold repitition rule requires
  the repititions to occur on alternating consecutive moves.
• Minor testing related improvements: Close PGN files, allow running via
  setuptools.
• Add recently introduced features to README.

python-chess v0.4.0

New in this release:

• Introduce can_claim_draw(), can_claim_fifty_moves() and
  can_claim_threefold_repitition().
• Since the first of July 2014 a game is also over (even without claim by one
  of the players) if there were 75 moves without a pawn move or capture or
  a fivefold repitition. Let is_game_over() respect that. Introduce
  is_seventyfive_moves() and is_fivefold_repitition(). Other means of
  ending a game take precedence.
• Threefold repitition checking requires efficient hashing of positions
  to build the table. So performance improvements were needed there. The
  default polyglot compatible zobrist hashes are now built incrementally.
• Fix low level rotation operations l90(), l45() and r45(). There was
  no problem in core because correct versions of the functions were inlined.
• Fix equality and inequality operators for Bitboard, Move and Piece.
  Also make them robust against comparisons with incompatible types.
• Provide equality and inequality operators for SquareSet and
  polyglot.Entry.
• Fix return values of incremental arithmetical operations for SquareSet.
• Make polyglot.Entry a collections.namedtuple.
• Determine and improve test coverage.
• Minor coding style fixes.

python-chess v0.3.1

New in this release:

• Bitboard.status() now correctly detects STATUS_INVALID_EP_SQUARE,
  instead of errors or false reports.
• Polyglot opening book reader now correctly handles knight underpromotions.
• Minor coding style fixes, including removal of unused imports.

python-chess v0.3.0

New in this release:

• Rename property half_moves of Bitboard to halfmove_clock.

• Rename property ply of Bitboard to fullmove_number.

• Let PGN parser handle symbols like !, ?, !? and so on by converting
  them to NAGs.

• Add a human readable string representation for Bitboards.

  >>> print(chess.Bitboard())
  r n b q k b n r
  p p p p p p p p
  . . . . . . . .
  . . . . . . . .
  . . . . . . . .
  . . . . . . . .
  P P P P P P P P
  R N B Q K B N R
  

• Various documentation improvements.