Generate gifs from pgn files of your chess games

pgn2gif

A small tool that generates 640x640 gif of chess pgn.

Installation

• You need python 3.6 or newer installed.
• Clone the repo with git clone https://github.com/dn1z/pgn2gif
• In the cloned directory Run

pip install -r requirements.txt

Usage

Run python3.6 pgn2gif.py with the following options:

Usage
    pgn2gif.py [-p | -s | -o]

Options:
    -p, --path          Path to the pgn file/folder
    -s, --speed         Speed of the pieces moving in gif
    -o, --out           Path to the gif output directory

NOTE

If you choose to run python3.6 pgn2gif without any other option then:

• pgn file must be present within the current working directory
• There must be a gifs folder present in the current working directory.

Example

PGN

1. e4 e5 2. Qh5 Ke7 3. Qxe5#

GIF output

GitHub