Lichess API

[shuvashish76]

Possibilty of playing chess online via lichess API.
https://lichess.org/source#docs-utilities-others

Would be nice to have feature to play on lichess via thier api directly from chess-tui

[thomas-mauran]

Hello @shuvashish76, this is a great idea, maybe you can create an issue mentioning this feature ?

[shuvashish76]

Lichess has too many features I thought better to create a discussion for ideas. (GitHub has the option to create issues from discussion page. Ok Done👍)

Basic features (not sure how hard is to implement them) that come to my mind:

• Playing multiple games (need switch/auto_switch option) e.g. correspondence or simiul
• Playing tournament (i.e. immediately switch to next game when paired), possibility of tournament stats while playing
• Accepting challenges
• Seek game or accept challenge from lobby
• Puzzles, streak, storm, racer
• Coordinates practice
• Run Lichess TV after certain period of user inactivity etc...

[thomas-mauran]

Oh that's nice I didn't know you could create issues out of discutions

[thomas-mauran]

Those are very interesting features, I think we might need to sort them cause some should be done before others. For example being able to play a game could be split in multiple, 1 being able to login to lichess and store it in the chess tui toml config, 2 being able to join and play a game with an id, 3 being able to create a game.

I will do a list out of the features you mentioned in this thread later.

Some features might be hard to implement, like the lichess tv for example which I don't know a lot about, while others like the puzzle one could be very trivial and a big value for the game !

[thomas-mauran]

I found this for playing the game:

https://lichess.org/api#tag/Games/operation/streamGame

This seems to use a stream with fen strings, if so we already are using a similar concepts for the chess engine games so this is nice meaning it might be kind of similar to implement

[shuvashish76]

Info: Lichess API has some restrictions for cheating reasons

• https://lichess.org/@/lichess/blog/welcome-lichess-bots/WvDNticA
• https://lichess.org/@/lichess/blog/welcome-lichess-boards/XlRW5REA

More info on their discord platform https://lichess.org/run/external-link/discord