ARON FRISHBERG

Chess-Analytica

Chess-Analytica

This idea began a while ago when I coded a project I called "Not Stockfish". Stockfish is currently the best chess engine in the world, and plays essentially flawlessly. On the other hand, I'm barely breaking 900 elo on chess.com, so I thought it would be interesting to create an engine that ran off of my moves.

Over the course of the next week or so, I ended up doing just that. It involved interfacing with the chess.com API, and a bunch of work.

I've always wanted to create an open source library of my own and so a few months later, I had the idea of creating a Python library that made chess analytics way easier (by making both scraping and analysis simpler). That is the story of how chess-analytica began.

After about a week of coding, using the urllib3 and chess libraries to build on top of, I finalized my code. Then came the really not fun part - documentation. This took me about 5 days to be honest, but it took me so long because I wanted to be extremely detailed, to ensure that others could use the code seamlessly.

After publishing my code through PyPi (which was a lot more difficult than I thought) and working under the umbrella of the MIT License, chess-analytica officially went into the public domain for any chess nerd to use freely.

Here are some links to chess-analytica resources :