Re: A86: Chess Engine

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Re: A86: Chess Engine



David Piper wrote:

> I have decided to make Chess Master 86,  It will have a computer to play
> against...
>
> This is my problem,  how do I effectivily make a good computer apponent
> without the program being massive....
>
> I have decided to make it so you can choose which computer apponent you
> want,  the computer apponents will be stored in sperate files. (I hope,
> I may just go with the best one)
>
> Here are the details so far
>
> Refer to a location called "Chess" for the current board
> and "ChessTemp" is a area that will mirror Chess when your file is
> started.  This is for Read/Write opperations,  ChessTemp is designed to
> be destroyed.
>
> When you program is finished it needs to return the Location, it needs
> to store the Peace type to be moved in "P_Type", and it needs to store
> the orriginal position of the peace in "P_Start",  and the End Position
> in "P_End"
>
> If you need to check to see weather a move is valid,  I will have a call
> available called "M_Check" with A as the Type,  and bc as (Start/End),
> nothing will be destroyed.
>
> The board will be one of the following,  use which ever one you like the
> best,  or you can submit me a new lay out....I will change it to the
> best one
>
> 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 or 01 01 03 04 05 06 07 08
> 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28     09 10 11 12 13 14 15 16
> 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38     17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24
> 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48     25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32
> 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58     33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40
> 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68     41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48
> 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78     49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56
> 81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88     57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64
>
> Any one who helps me with this will get the credit they are do in the
> program  (and if I release the source).
>
> Thank you,  any questions EMAIL me at piperc@jcave.com, or message me on
> ICQ at 1578263 or I am also Moroni on EFNET.
>
> Thank you for your time,
>
>                     David Piper

A couple of days ago I started writing an assembly chess program I called
ZChess, which would allow a human to play another human. I wasn't planning
on having the calculator play, though. I wrote the routine to draw a board
made of squares 8 pixels by 8 pixels, and I had a friend draw the pieces for
me.  I'm working on the code to input a move from the player. Anyway, it
sucks right now, but if you don't want to have to draw the pieces and do the
board drawing stuff, we could combine the programs. Or if anybody else wants
the code, just mail me.

I'm not sure ZChess and Chess Master would mix well, though. In ZChess I
didn't use a matrix for the board, I just stored it as data in the assembly
program. So I used letters like 'p' and 'K' for the pieces. If anyone wants
to help me with ZChess I'll give them credit.

I had considered making ZChess play chess, but when I looked at the C code
for GNU chess and Crafty I thought it would be impossible to write in
assembly on a calculator. If you could make just _one_ calculator player I
would be extremely impressed.

Thanks,
wil mahan
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