AlaskaLinuxUser's Scratchpad

October 24, 2017

Beginner Chess Engine: Solved the pawn/king check problem….

If you’ve been following along, you probably have seen that the king had a slight problem. It was failing to adequately check for pawns when considering it’s own safety. Here […]

October 19, 2017

Added a display for the list of possible moves to the Beginner Chess Engine

Well, if you were wondering what I was doing with my spare time, this is it! I just added a TextView to display the move options that the computer had […]

October 17, 2017

Added reset button to the Beginning Chess Engine app, but it doesn’t do what you think….

As you can see, I added a reset button to the app for the Beginning Chess Engine. Originally, I had intended to have the board simply reset back to the […]

October 13, 2017

Beginner chess engine has a new repository!

The beginner chess engine has a brand new repository so I can more accurately track issues. Before, it was a small part of a larger repository holding different programs, but […]

October 12, 2017

The trouble with knights….

The trouble with knights…. In the continuing saga of making my own chess engine for Android, I’ve run into a peculiarity: If the king is in check, and the only […]

October 10, 2017

As I continue to work on my java chess engine for Android, I’ve decided on a name for it, “beginner chess engine”. I just posted the latest commits here: https://github.com/alaskalinuxuser/apps_small/commit/cda1b197c7d48b71f45b6ce001cfa6a9482a1ba0 […]

October 5, 2017