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I have fixed all bugs including pinned pieces and promotions and now it matches all your perfts. I still don't like the pinned piece logic though -- it means gating is not really uncovering a piece. Also since I allow king captures (and do not check legality of move beforehand) in, pinning was a bi...

Does anyone know of a chess engine that can be used for a chess variant that uses a circular board? My game, Castle Siege Chess, uses a board that merges a 6x6 square board into the center of a circular board. I have previously used Zillions of Games script to program it with high success, but Zill...

the_real_greco wrote: ↑

Tue Dec 10, 2019 1:53 am

I dunno. They both seem like machines to me.

Good point

How this is related to chess playing software and machines?
Ask on Chess Players Forum instead, please.

I suggest everyone to read Tord Romstad old suggestion here https://www.reddit.com/r/chess/comments ... pgn_format It was very interesting.

https://github.com/pychess/pychess has offline tactics from several sources.

Just noticed this post containing some issues regarding PyChess can't install rofChade.
This is because PyChess fails to parse the invalid(!) option line rofChade emits:

option name SyzygyProbeDepth type spin default default 0 min 0 max 127

Notice the 2x "default"!

Seems there is some interest on using Chess for Android with DGT + lichess.org also. https://lichess.org/forum/general-chess-discussion/use-of-dgt-boards-on-lichessorg The only problem(?) that DGT usage on lichess have to use BOT API, so you can't play with your normal account if you use it. https:/...

Just let you know that PyChess has FICS (block mode) and ICC (datagram style protocol) support at https://github.com/pychess/pychess/tree ... pychess/ic
Feel free to borrow any code/ideas from there

Unfortunately FICS (and ICC also) is slowly dying as it loses users to more modern chess servers. Just take a look at https://www.ficsgames.org/stats.html year by year. I myself playing on lichess.org in latest years. It's getting better and better because it is open source and developed actively at...