Solitaire Chess

Originally posted by nimzo5
I am a huge fan of solitaire chess- a few thoughts.

1) starting from the opening is a bit questionable since there are so many alternative but decent moves. Far better to start from the first critical position in the game.

2) I typed nxf3 instead of Nxf3 and it didnt recognize it...

Also, it doesn't recognise long algebraic instead of short. I tried Nf3xd4, and it wasn't accepted. Coding for English notation would go a bit far, but I would expect both forms of algebraic to work.

Have Euwe's "Chess without a board" books been translated into English? They're something very similar.

Richard

It might be nice to have unique id's and then be able to track historical scores in games.

You might be able to create elo ratings based on how many people get a particular move correct etc.. granted since these are published games people could cheat- but in general it might be nice to know if 80% missed move X etc.

Originally posted by nimzo5
It might be nice to have unique id's and then be able to track historical scores in games.

You might be able to create elo ratings based on how many people get a particular move correct etc.. granted since these are published games people could cheat- but in general it might be nice to know if 80% missed move X etc.

Hi,

Updates on passionforchess.com

1) added signup and login
2) Now, games played will be tracked in archive with ranking.You can add comments for moves.


let me know what you think. I am planning to
- keep track of moves guessed by user in a game
- discussion of moves (any suggestions on implementation??)

Originally posted by vishyanand
discussion of moves (any suggestions on implementation??)

You've got the blog running off Wordpress so you must have a MySQL database hidden away there. You could easily store all of the discussions for each move in that database and just display them according to which move is being shown on the board.

Also, the design of the site could do with a bit of work.