Fen strings are a way to indiciate state of a chessboard. You can read a description about them here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forsyth–Edwards_Notation

Several python chess libraries use them, but none of them make them easily human readable or human writable. That is the goal of this library.

The file will have the following characteristics:

• The first row will contain the board description. This is fen fields 2 - 6. These will be separated by the '|' character
• The next 8 rows will contain the board state. Spaces indicate that no piece is present. Each piece will be separated by |

For instance, the following is the starting fenstr board position:

rnbqkbnr/pppppppp/8/8/8/8/PPPPPPPP/RNBQKBNR w KQkq - 0 1

This is represented in fencsv as:

w|KQkq|-|0|1
r|n|b|q|k|b|n|r
p|p|p|p|p|p|p|p
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P|P|P|P|P|P|P|P
R|N|B|Q|K|B|N|R

The first line is the fen state not related to piece position, except separated by | instead of . The other positions is the human readable board position.

Here is a completely blank board that you can use

w|KQkq|-|0|1
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