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Tag: beginnerchess

November 17, 2017

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 […]

October 26, 2017

Added the ability to castle to the Beginner Chess Engine

For better or worse, I added the ability to castle to the Beginner Chess Engine. In theory, that would always be better. However, adding this feature actually caused two problems: […]

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 […]

RSS Bible Gateway’s Verse of the Day

  • Ephesians 3:17-19
    “so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith. And I pray that you, being rooted and established in love, may have power, together with all the Lord’s holy people, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ, and to know this love that surpasses knowledge—that you […]

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