ChessBot?

[bdeane]

Does anyone know anything about the ChessBot in the Nov/Dec issue of Robot magazine?

See the Table of Contents for this issue at http://www.botmag.com/issue19/index.shtml . The ChessBot is on page 40...

It is described as "A robot that plays chess using twitter".

Thanks,

Brian

[Christopher Conkie]

Does anyone know anything about the ChessBot in the Nov/Dec issue of Robot magazine?

See the Table of Contents for this issue at http://www.botmag.com/issue19/index.shtml . The ChessBot is on page 40...

It is described as "A robot that plays chess using twitter".

Thanks,

Brian

There is source code (C#) there and an application that controls it.



It looks quite interesting.

Some videos as well......

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2G-nQuslaX0

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gq0XnAuXS1Y

I'm just guessing neither Steve or Fernando have one of these.



Christopher

[bdeane]

I wonder if it can be controlled via Arena?

There is a bit more info about it at http://www.norrislabs.com/Projects/ChessBot/index.html .

Brian

[Christopher Conkie]

I wonder if it can be controlled via Arena?

There is a bit more info about it at http://www.norrislabs.com/Projects/ChessBot/index.html .

Brian

Ummmm.....maybe.

Just cannot quite see what environment the engine needs. There seems to be no way to load it in that GUI.



Christopher

[Dann Corbit]

I wonder if it can be controlled via Arena?

There is a bit more info about it at http://www.norrislabs.com/Projects/ChessBot/index.html .

Brian

Ummmm.....maybe.

Just cannot quite see what environment the engine needs. There seems to be no way to load it in that GUI.



Christopher

The chess engine name and path are currently hardwired as:
psi.FileName = @"C:\ChessEngines\Faile\faile.exe";

See N22-ChessBot\PCApp\ChessBotStudio\Window1.xaml.cs
line 352

I changed it to:
psi.FileName = @"C:\chess\winboard\myrddin\Myrddin.exe";

and then I see output in the chess engine window.

[JVMerlino]

I wonder if it can be controlled via Arena?

There is a bit more info about it at http://www.norrislabs.com/Projects/ChessBot/index.html .

Brian

Ummmm.....maybe.

Just cannot quite see what environment the engine needs. There seems to be no way to load it in that GUI.



Christopher

The chess engine name and path are currently hardwired as:
psi.FileName = @"C:\ChessEngines\Faile\faile.exe";

See N22-ChessBot\PCApp\ChessBotStudio\Window1.xaml.cs
line 352

I changed it to:
psi.FileName = @"C:\chess\winboard\myrddin\Myrddin.exe";

and then I see output in the chess engine window.

....and the engine plays a couple hundred points worse....

jm