One of the more interesting parts to programming chess engines, is using the UCI, Universal Chess Interface. In that interface standard are very specific settings. One of those is that engines should accept input as either move by move, or through FEN.
The FEN part was actually quite easy. Just …
One issue that I have previously mentioned here was that certain styles of lambdas require you to use a C++ standard of 2011 or newer. This can be quickly overcome by adding the proper QMAKE flags …
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Another update to the BLOX2 (BLU Life One X2) kernel, I just added Sovoca's KCAL color calibration for the screen! You can check out the commit on GitLab, but unfortunately, while …
While building the picoEngine in C++, I will often be wondering what the engine is thinking. One of the problems is that I can not "see" the engine's board, so I don't know why it would make a particular move. So, I added a print function. This also is in …
While working through section 4 of my Qt GUI creator course, I ran into an interesting error:
/home/alaskalinuxuser/Documents/qt_course/section_4_21_qmainwindow/mainwindow.cpp:19: error: no matching function for call to 'QAction::QAction(const char [5])'
QAction * quitAction = new QAction("Quit");
^
What made the error interesting was that my …
Another update to the BLOX2 (BLU Life One X2) kernel, I just extended the voltage control from the big cores to the little cores as well! You can check out the commit on GitLab, but essentially we saw that the "bc" in the code stood for "big cores" and we …
Well, more like Random or Normal, actually. I'm off to a bit of a slow start, but I am making progress on the picoEngine.
First on my list was to give picoEngine an option for the GUI users to select from. Right now …
Just wrapped up section 3 of my Qt C++ beginner GUI course! Boy, this course is fun! I really appreciate the instructor taking the time to show 3 different ways to do things, and explaining why one might be more useful than others in different situations. I did run into …
Another update to the BLOX2 (BLU Life One X2) kernel, I just added Sweep2Wake and DoubleTap2Wake! You can check out the commit on GitLab, but my phone's screen and proximity sensor are smashed, so I'm not sure …
When I started programming, one of my early ideas was to build a chess engine. What sounds more sophisticated for a programmer, than building something like that? It just sounds smart!
Thus entered the "Beginner Engine" which I built for Android using a YouTube tutorial by Logic Crazy. It was …