Questions tagged [chess]
This tag is for concepts involving the game of Chess.
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Move generation in my C++ chess engine [closed]
I am building a chess engine in C++ and currently working on the move generation. To measure performance I use perft, but my main goal is to make the move generator itself faster.
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chess game: loading images for the rooks
I was ok with my pawn code but the rook code is very long and I want it to make the code shorter and cleaner and the same thing with my bishops, knights, kings and queens.
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A Java class for checking whether a white king is under checkmate
(I have this chess engine in Java; under construction.)
This post presents my logic for investigating whether the white king is in checkmate.
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A chess engine in Java: generating white pawn moves - take II
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This post continues the A chess engine in Java: generating white pawn moves.
I was advised to choose between efficiency and type safety. Since this is my first attempt at a chess engine, I have ...
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A chess engine in Java: generating white pawn moves
(This post has now a continuation.)
I decided to embark on implementing my own chess engine. The first (and perhaps most demanding) part of that endeavour is generating child states out of a given ...
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Chess game: board and moves
I'd like to preface this by saying firstly, my code is absolutely nowhere near complete, and secondly that I am essentially brand new to coding and this is my first real project.
I like to be thrown ...
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Chess_Board Validator from Automate the Boring Stuff Ch 5
I recently started learning python and came up with this solution to the "Chess Dictionary Validator" exercise which is given in the end of chapter 5 in the book "Automate the Boring ...
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Chessboard configuartions with no possible capture on the next move
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Given an NxM "chess"board and Q,R,B,K where Q is the number of queens, R the number of rooks, B the number of bishops, and K the number of knights find out how many possible ...
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C# chess engine performance
I am creating my own bitboard chess engine in C#. I am trying to optimize my make move, unmake move, and move generating functions to get a good fast base. My C# skills are average and got some tips ...
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Faster chess engine in python (with move ordering algorithm?)
I, an amateur coder, have been trying to code a chess engine with python as part of a larger research project. I started by following this tutorial (turns out creator of said tutorial has a github of ...
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C++ Chess Engine - Initialization of Magic Bitboard Attack Tables
I've just completed the generation of magic bitboard attack tables for bishops and rooks in my C++ chess engine.
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The functions generateMagicNumbers()...
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Minimal Chess Web GUI with Flask
Being a big chess fan, I finally started developing my own chess tool, however I'm already quite dissatisfied with where it's going...
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Checking if a chessboard presented as a dictionary, is a valid chessboard
Here's my solution to the Chess Dictionary Validator project in Automate the boring stuff by Al Sweigart. I'd love to know how I can improve this code so that it's more efficient. Thank you
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2-Player Chess in WinForms V.2 (With Separation of Concerns)
Introduction
After getting initial feedback on my first working version of this Chess WinForms game here, I have used the suggestions and comments from there to come up with this new version, trying ...
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