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PicoChess,
a dedicated chess computer project developed and maintained by Jean-Francois Romang, followed by Shivkumar Shivaji and more recently by Jürgen Précour ^[1] . The computer is based on the Raspberry Pi or similar ARM boards, the Stockfish engine, and the DGT Board and DGT clock. Further, PicoChess also targets x86 based destop PCs, to run not only Stockfish but any UCI compliant engine. PicoChess is Free software licensed under the GPLv3, and uses python-chess by Niklas Fiekas ^[2] to handle chess rules, opening books, and PGN files ^[3] . The display of the digital chess clock acts as output device of a command line interface.

Photos

PicoChess with DGT Board [4]

Engines

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• Stockfish 8 by Tord Romstad, Marco Costalba, Joona Kiiski and Gary Linscott
• Texel 1.07 by Peter Österlund
• Arasan 20.3 by Jon Dart
• Rodent III by Pawel Koziol
• Zurichess Neuchatel by Alexandru Mosoi
• WyldChess by Manik Charan
• Galjoen 0.37.2 by Werner Taelemans
• Sayuri 2017.12.16 by Hironori Ishibashi

See also

• DGT Board
• DGT Pi
• Gavon
• Raspberry Pi
• Revelation
• Revelation II

Postings

2012 ...

• Raspberry Pi / Stockfish dedicated chess computer/board by Jean-Francois Romang, CCC, August 26, 2012
• PicoChess stand alone chess computer has born :-) by Jean-Francois Romang, CCC, August 28, 2012
• PicoChess stand alone chess computer has born :-) by Jean-Francois Romang, Hiarcs Forum, August 28, 2012
  Re. PicoChess stand alone chess computer has born by Shivkumar Shivaji, Hiarcs Forum, September 14, 2012
• PicoChess finally on Raspberry Pi by Jean-Francois Romang, CCC, September 25, 2012 » Raspberry Pi
• Kaufbeuren Tournament 2012 by Wolfgang Zugrav, PicoChess group, October 08, 2012
• Re: Dedicated comp's and the end game by Shivkumar Shivaji, Hiarcs Forum, January 11, 2014

2015 ...

• Dedicated computers vs PC, PICOCHESS, GAVON by chesspcmac, Hiarcs Forum, April 16, 2015 » Gavon
• Howto turn a DGT3000 into a DGTPi - PicoChess by LocutusOfPenguin, April 17, 2017 » DGT Pi
• picochess v0.9h – Permanent brain - PicoChess by LocutusOfPenguin, September 18, 2017
• picochess v0.9i - chess clock by LocutusOfPenguin, October 02, 2017
• Howto turn a DGT3000 into a DGTPi by Ted Summers, CCC, October 22, 2017

External Links

• PicoChess by Jean-Francois Romang
• PicoChess by LocutusOfPenguin - Create a dedicated chess computer based on tiny ARM computers with the DGT e-board
• Welcome to PicoChess’s documentation !
• jromang (Jean-Francois Romang) · GitHub
  jromang/picochess · GitHub
• PicoChess–Google Groups
• Picochess on DGT 3000 ^[6] by Jonas Žnidaršič, BCE, YouTube Video
  

References

1. ^ Overview - PicoChess by LocutusOfPenguin
2. ^ niklasf/python-chess · GitHub
3. ^ Free Software — PicoChess 0.24 documentation
4. ^ PicoChess by Jean-Francois Romang
5. ^ Usage — PicoChess 0.9 documentation - Choosing the engine
6. ^ DGT Clocks : DGT 3000 (WCC in Sochi was using this clock) | | DGT Web Shop

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