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. Here you can see picoEngine’s “many” […]
Building picoEngine, a UCI Compatible Chess Engine
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 […]
Fool’s Mate Friday: Bobby Fischer Teaches Chess
While looking at a few old chess programs for some ideas about my current programming lull, I stumbled across a rather useful old DOS program: Bobby Fischer Teaches Chess. Of […]
Fool’s Mate Friday: LaserChess
Okay, so this may seem a bit off topic, but I was exploring old chess games for some inspiration. While this didn’t inspire me that much, it certainly was interesting […]
Fool’s Mate Friday: Ubports (Ubuntu Touch) Chess, with a hint of Cinnamon.
As I dive into the realm of making my Just Chess Engine playable, I was taking a look at some of the other chess interfaces out there, to see what […]
Fool’s Mate Friday: Chess books ancient and modern….
There are many ancient writings about chess and the various pre-chess games that obviously inspired chess itself. The first recorded European chess writing was a poem called ‘Versus de scachis’, […]
Fool’s Mate Friday: My Favorite FICS Commands
Last week we talked about Jin and FICS a bit, but I wanted to make a post to break down some of my favorite FICS commands, which help show […]
Fool’s Mate Friday: Jin, FICS, and Correspondence Chess
Apparently, the earliest documented correspondence chess game was played between Henry I of England and Louis VI of France, but the earliest correspondence chess game in which all of the […]
Fool’s Mate Friday: Touching up the User Interface….
My uncle once told me that a good paint job will sell a bad airplane. He’s right. As an airplane mechanic, he knew the value of the planes that he […]
Fool’s Mate Friday: Keeping the king safe!
The word “Checkmate” in Chess comes from the Persian phrase “Shah Mat,” which means “the King is dead.” While in the starting position, there are eight different ways to checkmate in […]