Outside The Box Programming

b-flat · Admintastic Joined: 20 Jan 2007 Posts: 315

Currently, here is what will be created (# indicates already made):

* Move pieces #
* board drawn #
* record game #
* endgame detection
* prevent illegal moving/capturing

Currently, the Rook cannot move illegally and I am working on the pawns.

Otherwise, the gameplay is nice!
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Curious Onlooker · Posted: Fri Mar 30, 2007 4:10 pm Post subject:

Have fun making the greyscale ASM version Wink

Pseudoprogrammer · Posted: Sun Oct 14, 2007 8:16 pm Post subject:

How about the AI? Razz

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Xphoenix · Modtastic Joined: 20 Jun 2007 Posts: 82 Location: [varies]

Screenies? Plz?

Also, can you add game saving/loading?
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Sting::Ray · Posted: Tue Oct 16, 2007 8:04 pm Post subject:

Don't forget to put in castling, and pawns getting to the end of the board and being able to be turned into things. Cool

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b-flat · Admintastic Joined: 20 Jan 2007 Posts: 315

People are interested? There are probably a million 2 player chess games atm...

I'll post a screenshot when I get time; I've been really busy with physics & drivers ed the past 2 weeks.

@Sting::Ray: all legal moves are supported, of course Very Happy

As for saving & loading, probably; there isn't much point without it.

AI:
I could attempt to write a simple AI, that only checked to see if it could take a piece without losing more and avoid check, though it would be VERY slow. Simply checking to see if one player is in check is ridiculously slow, though if you start by checking each square in all 8 directions from the king, instead of from other pieces to the king, it might be a little faster.
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Sting::Ray · Posted: Fri Oct 19, 2007 9:48 pm Post subject:

I don't think that you should bother with AI until you're making the ASM grayscale version. Razz

I'd be happy with a two-player chess game anyway. Smile

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TheStorm · Not worth mentioning Joined: 10 Jun 2007 Posts: 24

I believe Chessmaster is currently the best chess out there if you could improve on that it would be awesome. BTW the 86 version is grayscale.

Sting::Ray · Posted: Tue Oct 30, 2007 3:25 pm Post subject:

b-flat · Admintastic Joined: 20 Jan 2007 Posts: 315

OH MAN, BASIC GRAYSCALE FTW. I'm thinking of a method that MIGHT work with displaying the board using ascii characters in grayscale, but selection might be crap using this method.

I could easily make the selection grayscale if I did it in ASM (interrupts ftw), but I really don't know how to write a chess AI...
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Pseudoprogrammer · Posted: Tue Nov 06, 2007 9:47 pm Post subject:

Two words. "I do" Very Happy

I've got some experience with logic-game AI's, I wrote a connect 4 program that beats its creator (me) half the time... Only problem is I never ever worry about speed in my logic programs, I make programs the way I think, my connect 4 programs plays the way I play and its decision making process works the same as mine (that's why I am a good match for my own program) my connect 4 AI takes a little less then 5 minutes to decide where to move, and a chess AI would take LOTS longer to make a decision, but if you wanted you could convert that code into ASM and have an asm subprogram, or I could write a program that did a lower-level search, but the that AI would only be a challenge for absolute novices.
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