A few days ago, I reviewed several Chess related OCR scanners that convert hand written chess score sheets used in chess tournaments into pgn files that can be used by […]
A quest to find the best OCR to convert handwritten score sheets to digital pgn files
I’ve been on a chess tech quest. After every chess tournament or quad that I play in or run, there are handwritten scoresheets. Each of these scoresheets are like a […]
US Chess Federation Tournament Software for Linux?
If you’ve followed my blog for any length of time, you will know that I personally use Linux – exclusively. That said, I recently became a certified club level Tournament […]
JustChess – Add quit dialog for back button presses.
One of the issues on the issue tracker for my app JustChess is a comment about back button behavior. Technically, their problem is that if they press the back button […]
JustChess 2.3 – Fixing a castle.
Well, rather fixing castling, I suppose. There were quite a few problems with castling in my JustChess engine. In fact, it was so bad, I probably should have removed the […]
Justchess 2.2 – Fix “problème en fin de partie”
In case you didn’t catch that, don’t feel bad, I didn’t either. It is French for “Endgame problem”. The rest of the issue on the tracker went like this: “Quand […]
JustChess 2.1 is out with en passant bug fixes!
I haven’t worked on the JustChess app in about 5 years. However, I was recently made aware that there was a custom ROM, named DivestOS, which suggested my old app […]
Did Hans Niemann Cheat?
A slightly different post today, and certainly not my usual style. Opinion pieces are not usually my thing, but today I played a chess game that made me stop and […]
To castle, or not to castle, that is the question, picoEngine….
As you can see from the above screenshot, one of the engines possible moves is e8g8, which is for the black king to castle on the king’s side. This is […]
Uh, picoEngine? I thought you said the king was safe?
Except he’s not. That’s right. I big technical oversight on my part allowed the king to not be safe at all! while (boardPositions[k] == ‘*’ && notI) { Needed to […]