From the git-go, one of the hardest parts of making this chess engine and the following gui system has always been the pawns and the king. Both of these pieces […]
Fool’s Mate Friday: Now with moving pieces!
According to the Guinness World Records, the biggest playable chess set was made in Canada in 2009, with a king that was about 4 feet tall! Try moving that chunk […]
Fool’s Mate Friday: Identifying the board square by number.
Identification please! Did you know that there have been numerous cases of mistaken identity for the masters of chess in print? There are so many that websites have even devoted […]
Fool’s Mate Friday: JustChess, shaken, not stirred….
Well, I suppose the Bond reference does sound a bit out of place here, but perhaps if we break it down it will not seem to be so. In the […]
Fool’s Mate Friday: Building Bishops
Did you know that Bobby Fischer’s favorite piece was the king side bishop? Well, at least it is according to Grand Master Mihail Marin in his book, “Learn From the Legends: […]
Fool’s Mate Friday: A Rook-ie mistake!
The rook is believed to have once been the “rukh”, which was some sort of tower shaped carriage that was placed on top of an elephant. Supposedly, the rukh […]
Fool’s Mate Friday: A knight’s tale.
Now that we have a visual board to display, and we’ve called for the engine to check for all available moves, we need to actually add moves for each piece. […]
Fool’s Mate Friday: Getting “board” already?
They say that the folding chessboard was invented by a priest who was forbidden to play chess. This priest found a way to hide his game by making a folding […]
Fool’s Mate Friday: the Just Chess Engine is just getting started…..
There are only 20 first moves in any standard game of chess. 20 choices, 20 options. Statistically, only 10 of those options regularly result in a win, or at worse, […]
Fool’s Mate Friday: The JustChessEngine
Sometimes, you just have to step out in a new direction. In the 1920’s, chess players began to hold to a new style of play, then called hypermodernism. In this […]