Today’s update is pretty basic. Just cleaning up and filling in some blanks on my JustChess app. While I wont bore you with the whole commit, you are welcome to […]
Fool’s Mate Friday: Check or Stale Mate?
Apparently, in 1988, World Champion Gary Kasparov accidentally stalemated his opponent during a blitz tournament in Canada. Mr. Kasparov had a king, queen, and a bishop against Kiril Dimitrov Georgiev’s lone […]
Fool’s Mate Friday: Suggestions, anyone?
Well, more specifically, suggestions, computer? One of the cool things about having the built in JustChessEngine in my JustChess app, is the option to have the engine suggest a move […]
Fool’s Mate Friday: That move was the highlight of the game!
There were several computer GUI systems invented already, but the first (to the best of my knowledge, correct me if I’m wrong) computer GUI that would highlight your move options […]
JustNotes – when your notes are too long to read!
A user of my open source app, JustNotes, made an interesting observation… if your note gets too long, you can’t read it because it goes below the keyboard and you […]
Fool’s Mate Friday: En passant checkmate!
According to legend, Gary Kasparov once checkmated via en passant in an on-line game. However, I couldn’t actually find a detailed reference to that specific game. I was, however, able […]
Fool’s Mate Friday: Is the King safe from pawns?
Pawns can be scary things. They can en passant, they can form chains and islands, they can promote to the all powerful queen. Not to mention they can checkmate you. […]
Ubuntu Touch: Make your own Jabber/XMPP app in 10 minutes…
You probably think that I’m joking, but I’m not. You can actually build a jabber/xmpp app in less than 10 minutes if you have a good internet connection, and have […]
Fool’s Mate Friday: 8 minute moves….
They say that the first complete chess playing program was written by Alex Bernstein in 1957. There were earlier renditions that could not play a complete game, but could solve […]
Fool’s Mate Friday: One Player or Two?
It was interesting to me that white did not always move first in chess. Apparently, in 1857, a master of chess, Mr. Lowenthal made a recommendation to the First American […]