Polyglot opening book reading¶

chess.polyglot.open_reader(path)¶

Creates a reader for the file at the given path.

>>> with chess.polyglot.open_reader("data/polyglot/performance.bin") as reader:
...    for entry in reader.find_all(board):
...        print(entry.move(), entry.weight, entry.learn)
e2e4 1 0
d2d4 1 0
c2c4 1 0

class chess.polyglot.Entry¶

An entry from a polyglot opening book.

key¶: The Zobrist hash of the position.

raw_move¶: The raw binary representation of the move. Use the move() method to extract a move object from this.

weight¶: An integer value that can be used as the weight for this entry.

learn¶: Another integer value that can be used for extra information.

move(chess960=False)¶: Gets the move (as a Move object).

class chess.polyglot.MemoryMappedReader(filename)¶

Maps a polyglot opening book to memory.

find_all(board, minimum_weight=1, exclude_moves=())¶: Seeks a specific position and yields corresponding entries.

find(board, minimum_weight=1, exclude_moves=())¶

Finds the main entry for the given position or zobrist hash.

The main entry is the first entry with the highest weight.

By default entries with weight 0 are excluded. This is a common way to delete entries from an opening book without compacting it. Pass minimum_weight 0 to select all entries.

Raises:	`IndexError` if no entries are found.

choice(board, minimum_weight=1, exclude_moves=(), random=<module 'random' from '/home/docs/checkouts/readthedocs.org/user_builds/python-chess/envs/v0.19.0/lib/python3.5/random.py'>)¶

Uniformly selects a random entry for the given position.

Raises:	`IndexError` if no entries are found.

weighted_choice(board, exclude_moves=(), random=<module 'random' from '/home/docs/checkouts/readthedocs.org/user_builds/python-chess/envs/v0.19.0/lib/python3.5/random.py'>)¶

Selects a random entry for the given position, distributed by the weights of the entries.

Raises:	`IndexError` if no entries are found.

close()¶: Closes the reader.

chess.polyglot.POLYGLOT_RANDOM_ARRAY = [0x9D39247E33776D41, ..., 0xF8D626AAAF278509]¶: Array of 781 polyglot compatible pseudo random values for Zobrist hashing.

chess.polyglot.zobrist_hash(board, _hasher=<chess.polyglot.ZobristHasher object>)¶

Calculates the Polyglot Zobrist hash of the position.

A zobrist hash is an XOR of pseudo random values picked from an array. Which values are picked is decided by features of the position, such as piece positions, castling rights and en passant squares.