This tag is for chess related programming. You probably want to also include some more general tags such as [tag:algorithms], [tag:data-structures], [tag:application-design] if you are asking about chess game programming.
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Best approach for writing a chess engine? [closed]
I'm a chess enthusiast and a programmer. I recently decided to start making a chess engine using my chess and programming knowledge. So here's my question:
What language (I'm familiar with Java, C++ ...
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Learning the rules of chess
A similar question asks whether a computer can learn to play optimally in chess by analyzing thousands of games.
If a machine can look at the state of the board for a few games of chess (or a few ...
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Chess as a team building exercise for software developers
The last place I worked wasn't a particularly great place and there were more than a few nights where we were working late into the evening trying to meet our sprints. The team while stressed out got ...
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Which paradigm to use for writing chess engine?
If you were going to write a chess game engine, what programming paradigm would you use (OOP, procedural, etc) and why whould you choose it ? By chess engine, I mean the portion of a program that ...
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N queens, X by Y board decision problem interview question
I was asked the following question in an interview today and I've been thinking about it ever since. I was not able to answer it and haven't been able to find a solution online.
Given a chess board ...
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How to decompose / model a chessboard
As someone new to programming, I am building a chess web application in JavaScript, both for fun and to learn more about design patterns. I keep running into a wall, which is how to decompose the ...
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Implementation of algorithm to generate chess positions
I am interested in developing a program that generates an endgame table-base for the chess.
I have gone through the technical papers of the greats like Shannon and Ken Thompson. I have found that ...
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Language for Chess Position Evaluation (experimental) [closed]
My aim is to, via pattern analysis and statistics, (as well as piece mobility and position) build a chess position evaluation analyzer (rather than simply going brute force ply-searching).
Id like ...
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How does a chess engine decide what move to make?
I'm writing a simple chess engine in LISP. I actually know how the engine decide the move, it evaluates and reads some opening books. But that's not what i mean. This is my design.
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Implementation of chess endgame engine without Endgame Tablebases
I'm interested in creating an chess endgame solving engine.
The endgames in chess are usually solved using the endgame table-bases generated by retrograde algorithm.
I have found that Artificial ...
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Which programming guidelines for a chess network application?
I'd like to implement a simple chess peer to peer network application : one instance of the program may register friends player, and when one friend is "connected" (I mean both available by another ...
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About classes and their valid states
I get stuck each time I need to write a constructor for any class I design. The reason is that I am not sure what should go into a constructor and what should not.
On googling for this, I got the ...
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Implementation/Representation of Symmetries in Chessboards
In a 8X8 chessboard, I was wondering how to implement the symmetry of the board.
A lot of positions are just mirrors or rotations of one another (with no pawns or castling capabilities left the ...
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Writing a game engine using javascript
..by this I mean a logic handler for a chess game. Basically validating a move and checking if somebody has won.
Now ignore the complexity of the game(if you can..) I'd like some sort of psuedo code ...
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What would be the fastest way of storing or calculating legal move sets for chess pieces?
For example if a move is attempted I could just loop through a list of legal moves and compare the x,y but I have to write logic to calculate those at least every time the piece is moved.
Or, I can ...
