Immortal_Losing_Game,_1957.gif


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English: Animation of the 1957 Immortal Losing Game between David Bronstein and the Polish International Master Bogdan Śliwa
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Author Morn
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This GIF graphic was created with Python .
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Python code

Source code
#!/usr/bin/env python3

# Plot a PGN game using python-chess and ImageMagick

import os
import chess.pgn
import chess.svg

pgn = open('sliwa_bronstein_1957.pgn')
game = chess.pgn.read_game(pgn)
board = game.board()

def svg(i):
    lm = board.peek()
    a = [(lm.from_square, lm.to_square)]
    s = chess.svg.board(board, arrows = a, size = 800)

    f1 = "g_%04u.svg" % i
    f2 = "g_%04u.png" % i

    with open(f1, 'w') as f:
        f.write(s)
    os.system("convert %s %s" % (f1, f2))
    os.system("rm %s" % f1)

i = 1

for m in game.mainline_moves():
    board.push(m)
    svg(i)
    i += 1

# pause animation at the end:
for j in range(3):
    svg(i)
    i += 1

# create animation with
# convert -delay 150 g_*.png -loop 0 g.gif

PGN

[Event "Gotha"]
[Site "Gotha GDR"]
[Date "1957.09.??"]
[EventDate "?"]
[Round "4"]
[Result "1-0"]
[White "Bogdan Sliwa"]
[Black "David Bronstein"]
[ECO "A81"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "57"]

1. d4 f5 2. g3 g6 3. Bg2 Bg7 4. Nc3 Nf6 5. Bg5 Nc6 6. Qd2 d6
7. h4 e6 8. O-O-O h6 9. Bf4 Bd7 10. e4 fxe4 11. Nxe4 Nd5
12. Ne2 Qe7 13. c4 Nb6 14. c5 dxc5 15. Bxc7 O-O 16. Bd6 Qf7
17. Bxf8 Rxf8 18. dxc5 Nd5 19. f4 Rd8 20. N2c3 Ndb4 21. Nd6
Qf8 22. Nxb7 Nd4 23. Nxd8 Bb5 24. Nxe6 Bd3 25. Bd5 Qf5
26. Nxd4+ Qxd5 27. Nc2 Bxc3 28. bxc3 Qxa2 29. cxb4 1-0

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20 December 2020