chessli

A free and open-source chess improvement app that combines the power of Lichess and Anki.

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Demos

CLI Demo (watch whole video on Youtube)

Anki Cards Demo (watch whole video on Youtube)

Documentation

Check out the documentation:

	Tutorial
Setup chessli	How to set chessli up
Games & Mistakes	How to learn from your games
Openings	How to build an opening repertoire
Tactics	How to get better at tactics
Anki Cards	How to use chessli's anki cards

Features

• Automatically fetch your games and played tactics puzzles from lichess via the berserk python client for the Lichess API.!
• Find your mistakes by parsing your games and analysing them with python-chess.
• Build a simple opening repertoire and list your known openings
• Spaced repetition & Retrieval Practice: Automatically (via apy) or manually (via csv export) add your game mistakes, your openings and your tackled lichess puzzles into Anki
• Stats and visualizations: Seamlessly show lichess leaderboards or plot your rating history.

Getting Started

Installation

1. Install pip. See here for help.

2. Install chessli with pip:

pip install chessli

That's it!

Basic Usage

To get help about chesslis commands, open your console and type:

chessli --help

The same works for subcommands, e.g., :

chessli games --help

You can find an overview of all availabe cli-commands here in the docs.

Tutorial

Now as you are familiar with the basics, you might want to walk through the tutorial to get the most out of chessli! Start with setting up chessli.

Acknowledgments

	Acknowledgements
Lichess	A free, no-ads, open source chess server that let's everyone play chess! Think about whether to become a patron! :)
Anki	A free and open-source flashcard program using spaced-repetition, a technique from cognitive science for fast and long-lasting memorization. I couldn't imagine learning without it anymore.
Anki Card Templates	The interactive chess functionality on Chessli's anki cards is based from these fantastic cards.
python-chess	Most of the heavy lifting, e.g. parsing games, finding mistakes, extracting openings, etc. is done with python-chess.
berserk	The communication between lichess and chessli is performed via berserk
typer	The chessli cli is built with the great typer
rich	The rich colors and fancy tables are made possible by rich
apy	Importing cards directly into anki without csv-export can be done via apy