Re: [OpenVerse] Upcoming chess room

[Andy Goth <unununium@openverse.org>]

> > I've been working on a chess room.  Tonight I thought I finished drawing
> > the panel, but I had a chat with Jack.  Now I'm going to revise it some...

It is revised.  If anyone wants to see my room, just ask.

> This would be awesome if you can code it.

Thanks.  It's hard to write something if no one cares.

> Is it possible to port code from gnuchess and/or xboard for this?

Why?  Chess rules are pretty simple, and I don't need an AI engine.  After
all, we have real people!  And hopefully I can implement a scoring/ranking
system.

> It would be a pity to have
> to re-invent all the algorithms used in gnuchess. Both gnuchess and
> xboard are written in C, however I know there is a Windows port (I
> have the latter but not the source).  You may have to port xboard to
> Tcl, but as it is a front-end for gnuchess, you could use the latter
> with little modification, I believe; (it is GPL'ed).

I could port it, but I know enough about chess to be able to write it from
scratch.  I've done C++ chess games before (with AI).  Of course, the AI
was utterly predictable, but... it beat me!

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