All Chess Moves

Contains

• A formatted list of all possible chess moves
• The Python script used to generate the list

Format

All moves are represented as strings of characters. All alphabet characters are lower case.

Regular Moves

Regular moves consist of 4 characters in this order:

• The file of the starting square
• The rank of the starting square
• The file of the ending square
• The rank of the ending square

Example: "f5e4" means that a piece moved from f5 to e4.

Exceptions

Castling

• "O-O" represents king's side castling
• "O-O-O" represents queen's side castling

Promoting

All promotion moves are fomatted like regular moves, but with an additional character appended to represent the piece to promote to.

• 'q' = queen
• 'r' = rook
• 'b' = bishop
• 'n' = night

Example: "e7e8q" means that a white pawn moved from e7 to e8 and promoted to a queen.

Notes

• The moves in this list do not represent which color is moving, which piece is moving, capturing a piece, giving check, giving checkmate, or en passant.
• Some moves listed will not be legal moves in some chess positions. This is simply a list of all possible moves that could potentially be played given the right position.