Thread: Chess project

lol my webdesign teacher has just made me a a fairly good banner :

black-brain.con is not

i've finished our new home page am going to put screen shot or upload directly to the website as soon as i get registered

I had a dream last night about a school project where I was supposed to write a chess engine. It was due in like 4 hours even though it was a semester project. The teacher was this asian guy who was my old professor from "Finite Automata". I was running home to go work on it, thinking "OK....minimax, evaluation function only counts material, simple console interface. I can totally do this." Unfortunately, I hailed a cab on the way home and got side-tracked when the cabbie (Queen Latifa) wanted to give me some life advice that I can't quite recall at the moment.

Which leads me to my question. Are you guys actually going to build a chess engine, or are you just going to build a website and talk about it? Maybe it's just me, but aren't you approaching this whole thing sdrawkcab? Food for thought.

What are CRC cards?

Are you guys just going to write the engine and interface it with an existing GUI, like WinBoard? Or maybe you could make a UCI interface (http://www.aarontay.per.sg/Winboard/confusion.html)? Don't worry, I didn't know about UCI until I just googled it a minute ago...

guys let me tell you before we launch the site


the game is not importantly to be graphical, dos eindow is enough

Goals:
save the board in the memory by pointers and update it every move



Mu uncle told me he either register the domain today or tomorrow cuz the bank is delievring new VISA for him

Sytem_159 plz give me your real name (first and last) and your friends real name (first and last) for the "team" page as founders and programmers


i'm approaching the final touches for the website

Do you know what board representation you are going to use?

It seems like it would make sense to divide the work like this:

a) one person implement board representation & move validation
b) one person implement the basic algorithms like alpha-beta, iterative-deepening, quiescent search, etc. (this is all well known, and is basically available for free online at: http://www.seanet.com/~brucemo/topics/alphabeta.htm)
c) one person does transposition table with zobrist keys (also might make sense to have this person write the code to give PV).
d) one person does human interface--still some work, even if the program is command line--because this person needs to convert internal representation of text into move. If more adventurous this person could learn about Winboard interface, which would allow you to interface with GUI without actually writing GUI code.

e) At the end of all this prerequisite code, the group would be in a position to write the truely fun code--the evaluation function.

I would be interested in getting involved doing either (a) or (b)--if we use a bitboard representation.

By the way, I'm still wondering what the hell a CRC card is.

Originally Posted by IfYouSaySo

By the way, I'm still wondering what the hell a CRC card is.

C.R.C. = Class, Responsibilities, and Collaborators

I think its writing each "CLASS"/OBJECT in your program on its own index card so err you can easily move them around for design purposes? At least thats what the following site says they are:

http://www.csc.calpoly.edu/~dbutler/...inter96/crc_b/

Originally Posted by IfYouSaySo

Do you know what board representation you are going to use?

It seems like it would make sense to divide the work like this:

a) one person implement board representation & move validation
b) one person implement the basic algorithms like alpha-beta, iterative-deepening, quiescent search, etc. (this is all well known, and is basically available for free online at: http://www.seanet.com/~brucemo/topics/alphabeta.htm)
c) one person does transposition table with zobrist keys (also might make sense to have this person write the code to give PV).
d) one person does human interface--still some work, even if the program is command line--because this person needs to convert internal representation of text into move. If more adventurous this person could learn about Winboard interface, which would allow you to interface with GUI without actually writing GUI code.

e) At the end of all this prerequisite code, the group would be in a position to write the truely fun code--the evaluation function.

I would be interested in getting involved doing either (a) or (b)--if we use a bitboard representation.

By the way, I'm still wondering what the hell a CRC card is.

after i have final private discussion with System_159 i will post the rules of programming on our private forums that are only viewed by several groups there will be geenral forums though for people to discuss


we are really approaching big stage now

i see a big programming team entering the game industry passiontly


in the mean time, i will be working on secret project that will be devloped after Black Brain chess player

I was just trying to figure out why I was so confused. Then it hit me--you just quoted my entire post, and then replied with some vague and random statements that didn't appear related to what I said at all.

congratulations all BB staff !! domain has been finally registered !!
www.BLACK-BRAIN.com


the home page will appear once the domain is connected to the server !