After all these years, I think Chess programming algorithms, and the programs playing, is fascinating.
CHESS PIECES MOVES CODE CODE
I should dig out that old code and see if it will compile on today's compiler. It's hard to play against perfection - wears you down! Thanks largely to the end game table bases, which allow perfect play. Neither program had the ability to play the end game!īy the time I got a computer and had learned enough C to start however, the programs had already surpassed my chess playing skills, and my ideas for them playing in the end game, as well. I actually learned C because I wanted to program a chess game - this was way back when Kaissa and Stanford's chess program played for the World Championship, but the game had to be adjudicated by a chess Master. Water off a ducks back is the only attitude that gets you by, over there. But several of them are elitist snobs and severely condescending. On the Chess programming forums, you MUST absolutely ignore the attitudes! There's one or two that frankly, should be checking their meds, if not straightaway be locked up! They rarely appear, thank the heavens. Goodluck to all here and especially all C chess programmers! I am enjoying learning C and feel I may be able later to use some of the concepts to better understand my other coding in my web programming and developing (with HTML5,JavaScript & PHP & ASP etc) which is my main area of expertise. I still aim to make my simple/basic chess engine and fully realise that understanding & implementing basic search algorithms (minimax) and move generators is a challenge for me in C. cobblers to their arrogant attitude!:-) I enjoy chess & chess programming-end of story! The arrogant ones saying in effect it is impossible for a novice programmer to make a chess engine and the only worthy engines were theirs with ELO ratings of 3000+ using parallelised processing and super human algorithms throughout! Ha. Some members were helpful & supportive but others were so unhelpful and arrogant. I did subscribe a few years ago to Winboard forum where I found conflicting help. The basic C engines MSCP/TSCP/FirstChess/SecondChess may be simple and basic to seasoned C programmers but to a novice like me much of the code remains a mystery! I do acknowledge they are helpful to look for guidance to. Every time I look to find info on what I want done for a chess engine in C I find the info for some other language eg python,ruby,C++,C#,VisualC++,Basic etc etc etc. I elected to try C and have been trying to learn C over the last couple of months. Recently I thought it would be good to actually make my own chess engine so I understood every bit of the code & not just copy & paste some functions in and only vaguely know what they were doing. I found it hard going though to program as I am self taught & I made a Java chess game with help from ThinkQuest and managed to do some Java Swing etc. I opted to look at Java for as well as being able to do programming logic it has better graphic capabilities than some other native languages (esp C). Then I wanted to try to actually make my own chess program (engine + gui) but was bewildered by the number of languages that chess programs can be made in. I started with Perl & regexes & that more or less fixed my problems (Perl is good at text/data wrangling-but I only learnt the basics of using Perl and Perl on Windows). I first started looking at chess programming several years ago when I wanted to clean & manipulate large pgn database files as some programs needed strict pgn values. Thanks std10093 & Adak I will try your advice but may (almost certainly) need more help to get the C function to work properly. (It was intended as a tutorial, not a competitive player). Google "First Chess", for a VERY simple start. There are hundreds of open source chess programs that you can study also. This has a ton of chess programming info:
Open Chess has a slower and more relaxed atmosphere, and a very nice chess game re-player. Don't mention clones unless you want your thread to be inundated with that topic, in Talk Chess. Note: The "clone" wars are definitely in progress. They have a few programmers there that either are or have been, among the top programs in the world. The first two are the best chess programming forums - talk chess especially (but they do squabble a lot and with good reason). These are highly recommended chess programming resources: I agree with std10093, pick apart the move:fromCol fromRow toCol toRow, variables assigned from move through move, but then you have the weird moves like a pawn reaching the last row, etc.
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