Category Archives: Sport
Chess Tourney Rounds 4 and 1
I’ve uploaded PGN players for my round 4 and round 1 games. Both of these games were wins playing black, which gives me 3 wins and a draw with one round to go. The round 4 game got off to … Continue reading
“Jnuchess” Plays and Wins
The Java port of GNU Chess is now doing well enough to play a game and beat me. To get the main alpha-beta engine to work I had to track down about a half-dozen or so translation errors I had … Continue reading
Chess Tourney Round 3
At left, is a typical position of the middle game. I thought for a while and moved Bf3, but the computer suggests f4 instead. Eventually I figured out I should use my extra piece to try to win trailing pawns … Continue reading
GNU Chess/Java Starts to Run
I decided to go ahead and convert the remaining printf() calls (too chicken to try switching to Java 5 at this point) and ignore the signal() calls so I could try running GNU Chess/Java. The signal() calls are only used … Continue reading
C to Java
I’ve almost finished the mostly-mechanical first pass of converting the C GNU Chess code to Java syntax. I haven’t tried to compile yet, but there’s about six files out of thirty-plus that IDEA (world’s greatest IDE) says contain syntax errors. … Continue reading
Java Port of GNU Chess
… if it does by chance run, it will serve as an interesting Java benchmark and will give me something to tinker with. Continue reading
Chess Spring Tournament – Round 2
I’m sure it’s not often you can be up two pawns to none and still draw. Continue reading