My litle iddy biddy chess program

I have just finished Text chess and it will run on any windows machine, its just text graphics.

I need players to advise weights and measures to use in my position evaluations, and find any other facts about the program Ive missed. AND! can you break it? thats got a be fun!+

the link is: http://uk.geocities.com/avalomhilly/TextChes.zip
My homepage is: http://uk.geocities.com/avalomhilly/FreeBoardWargames.html
my yahoo group is:
http://uk.groups.yahoo.com/group/AvalomandMud/

can you help?

Mark

at least try my challenge can you mate it in 20!

Hi Main! I am also working on a chess program much like yours, only better 😛. What language is it written in? Maybe we can have a competition when I'm done with mine.

I think you have some very basic problems with your eval function. For example I just played a game that went as follows:

1. e4 Nf6 2. e5 Ne4 3. d3 Nc5 4. d4 Ne5 5. d5 Nc6??

What I predict is that you made pawns equal to knights for some reason. If I try to take without him taking back then its bad, but if he can take back it's OK. Read: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chess_piece_point_value

By the way, your program needs an opening book...

Hi you guys!
I wrote an engine with a friend of mine, username here is tih.
It looks like we will start a tournament

Our program is written in c# and uses the Universal Chess Interface UCI,
so we could use FRITZ as frontend and could concentrate to the
engine itself.
The only good thing we managed was a tablebase generator for
endgames with 3 pieces.

But hey, see you at our tournament, ok?

Mine is written in C++ but it won't be done for a few days. Then I want to start optimizing the evaluation function...

Mine was written in Z80 assembler, but I no longer have the source code or any machine that could run it...

Hey Mote, thats interesting just played through the night chase :
1. e4 Nf6 2. e5 Ne4 3. d3 Nc5 4. d4 Ne6 5. d5 Nc6
I actualy remember doing this in my eval function, I can fix this quite easy thanks mote. I think I dont give enough waeight to captures over positional play, it does have a very limited opening book, youve just got to play the right moves 🙂 but thanks again mote ill do a book

Love to see your program too

I did it in C++ compiler! its been a lot of fun!

Afx nice, its a good thing to get on to a major intereface.!

john I remember Z80 , that was great programing it. :LD A,10 :RET 🙂