Chess::Games::DotCom - API for accessing chessgames.com

NAME

  shell> perl -MChess::Games::DotCom -e  game_of_day
  shell> perl -MChess::Games::DotCom -e 'game_of_day("myfile.pgn")'

  shell> perl -MChess::Games::DotCom -e  puzzle_of_day
  shell> perl -MChess::Games::DotCom -e 'puzzle_of_day("myfile.pgn")'

Download games from chessgames.com.

A script in scripts suitable for invocation from cron is included.

Downloads the game of the day. If $filename is not specified, then it downloads it to game_of_day.pgn.

Downloads the puzzle of the day. If $filename is not specified, then it downloads it to puzzle_of_day.pgn.

game_of_day puzzle_of_day

Realized that I parsed out the wrong thing and parsed out something like:

   12.�...?

instead.

Stored this in plycount instead.

For puzzle_of_day(), parsed out "$color to move and win" and stored in the PlyCount header of PGN so that I could see where the puzzle began.

Too see an example of a log of auto-downloaded games, visit:

Added a sample cron file for daily automatic retrieval of puzzle of day.

Added Log::Agent logging to sample retrieval script

puzzle_of_day was added

Download other daily game parts of the site

The Perl Chess Mailing List:

  http://www.yahoogroups.com/group/perl-chess

T. M. Brannon, <tbone@cpan.org>

You must have the following installed:

For the script in the scripts directory, you also need:

This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.