A very simple engine in C/C++ using bitboards?

[pocopito]

Hi all

Maybe someone here remembers Firstchess "FirstChess, a very simple open source chess program with a command line interface written by Nguyen Hong Pham (surname) in C for didactic purpose, introduced in 2002"

https://github.com/nguyenpham/FirstChess

I'm wondering whether something similar, written in C/C++ but with bitboards exists.

Thanks in advance

Emilio

[Guenther]

Hi all

Maybe someone here remembers Firstchess "FirstChess, a very simple open source chess program with a command line interface written by Nguyen Hong Pham (surname) in C for didactic purpose, introduced in 2002"

https://github.com/nguyenpham/FirstChess

I'm wondering whether something similar, written in C/C++ but with bitboards exists.

Thanks in advance

Emilio

e.g. Winglet (original site does not exist anymore - thus the wayback link)
http://web.archive.org/web/201206211002 ... m/winglet/

[Edsel Apostol]

Hi all

Maybe someone here remembers Firstchess "FirstChess, a very simple open source chess program with a command line interface written by Nguyen Hong Pham (surname) in C for didactic purpose, introduced in 2002"

https://github.com/nguyenpham/FirstChess

I'm wondering whether something similar, written in C/C++ but with bitboards exists.

Thanks in advance

Emilio

You can try this one. This is when I'm just starting to learn programming in College.

https://github.com/ed-apostol/TwistedLo ... /Logic18.c

[Dann Corbit]

Hi all

Maybe someone here remembers Firstchess "FirstChess, a very simple open source chess program with a command line interface written by Nguyen Hong Pham (surname) in C for didactic purpose, introduced in 2002"

https://github.com/nguyenpham/FirstChess

I'm wondering whether something similar, written in C/C++ but with bitboards exists.

Thanks in advance

Emilio

Olithink.
From here:
http://brausch.org/home/chess/index.html
This link:
http://brausch.org/home/chess/OliThink533.src.zip

[mkchan]

Check out Teki:

https://github.com/Mk-Chan/Teki

It uses the classical bitboard approach (non-magic/rotated).

[Uri Blass]

Hi all

Maybe someone here remembers Firstchess "FirstChess, a very simple open source chess program with a command line interface written by Nguyen Hong Pham (surname) in C for didactic purpose, introduced in 2002"

https://github.com/nguyenpham/FirstChess

I'm wondering whether something similar, written in C/C++ but with bitboards exists.

Thanks in advance

Emilio

e.g. Winglet (original site does not exist anymore - thus the wayback link)
http://web.archive.org/web/201206211002 ... m/winglet/

Thanks for this link
I started to try to follow the steps

I have some problem in step 5.

int _tmain(int argc, _TCHAR* argv[])
{
printf("hello, I am your new friend!\n");
return 0;
}

This code produce errors when I compile it.

Severity Code Description Project File Line Suppression State
Error (active) E0020 identifier "_TCHAR" is undefined chess_project C:\Users\UriBlass\source\repos\chess_project\chess_project\main.cpp 2
Severity Code Description Project File Line Suppression State
Error (active) E0020 identifier "printf" is undefined chess_project C:\Users\UriBlass\source\repos\chess_project\chess_project\main.cpp 5

Note that
I have no errors with the following code that does what it is supposed to do and maybe the code that they suggest is only relevant for visual C++2010 and not for visual C++2017.

#include <iostream>
int main()
{
printf("hello, I am your new friend!\n");
return 0;
}

Edit:
I guess that the following comment in step 5 is also not relevant for people who use Visual C++ 2017

"Visual Studio C++ Express does not come with 64-bit compilers.
If you want to build your executable for a 64-bit platform, then I suggest searching the internet for "how to configure Visual C++ Projects to Target 64-Bit Platforms". This will lead you to Microsoft's site with more information. "

Am I right?

[tttony]

Hi all

Maybe someone here remembers Firstchess "FirstChess, a very simple open source chess program with a command line interface written by Nguyen Hong Pham (surname) in C for didactic purpose, introduced in 2002"

https://github.com/nguyenpham/FirstChess

I'm wondering whether something similar, written in C/C++ but with bitboards exists.

Thanks in advance

Emilio

e.g. Winglet (original site does not exist anymore - thus the wayback link)
http://web.archive.org/web/201206211002 ... m/winglet/

Thanks for this link
I started to try to follow the steps

I have some problem in step 5.

int _tmain(int argc, _TCHAR* argv[])
{
printf("hello, I am your new friend!\n");
return 0;
}

This code produce errors when I compile it.

Severity Code Description Project File Line Suppression State
Error (active) E0020 identifier "_TCHAR" is undefined chess_project C:\Users\UriBlass\source\repos\chess_project\chess_project\main.cpp 2
Severity Code Description Project File Line Suppression State
Error (active) E0020 identifier "printf" is undefined chess_project C:\Users\UriBlass\source\repos\chess_project\chess_project\main.cpp 5

Note that
I have no errors with the following code that does what it is supposed to do and maybe the code that they suggest is only relevant for visual C++2010 and not for visual C++2017.

#include <iostream>
int main()
{
printf("hello, I am your new friend!\n");
return 0;
}

Edit:
I guess that the following comment in step 5 is also not relevant for people who use Visual C++ 2017

"Visual Studio C++ Express does not come with 64-bit compilers.
If you want to build your executable for a 64-bit platform, then I suggest searching the internet for "how to configure Visual C++ Projects to Target 64-Bit Platforms". This will lead you to Microsoft's site with more information. "

Am I right?

I personally don't recommend that tutorial because it's focused on programming in Windows, also it's outdated, the code it's too repetitive and mix c with c++

I learned chess programming and C programming watching the VICE series (the source code it's a bit a mess but at the end you will learn), it's developed in C99, you can develop C99 in Visual Studio with just changing the source files to .c VS will compile as C code (since VS 2013 support C99) VS 2017 seems to still support C99, just using a few macros you can get a fully functional chess program in Windows, Linux and macOS

[Edsel Apostol]

Hi all

Maybe someone here remembers Firstchess "FirstChess, a very simple open source chess program with a command line interface written by Nguyen Hong Pham (surname) in C for didactic purpose, introduced in 2002"

https://github.com/nguyenpham/FirstChess

I'm wondering whether something similar, written in C/C++ but with bitboards exists.

Thanks in advance

Emilio

Try also this one. My early versions from 2005. This is a working xboard engine:

https://github.com/ed-apostol/TwistedLo ... c/omega9.c

[pocopito]

[/quote]

Try also this one. My early versions from 2005. This is a working xboard engine:

https://github.com/ed-apostol/TwistedLo ... c/omega9.c
[/quote]

This one doesn't compile

$ gcc -o omega9 omega9.c
omega9.c: In function ‘gettime’:
omega9.c:533:5: warning: implicit declaration of function ‘_ftime’; did you mean ‘ftime’? [-Wimplicit-function-declaration]
_ftime(&tv);
^~~~~~
ftime
omega9.c:534:15: error: invalid use of undefined type ‘struct _timeb’
return (tv.time * 1000 + tv.millitm);
^
omega9.c:534:32: error: invalid use of undefined type ‘struct _timeb’
return (tv.time * 1000 + tv.millitm);
^
omega9.c: In function ‘displayb’:
omega9.c:927:14: warning: format ‘%d’ expects argument of type ‘int’, but argument 2 has type ‘long int’ [-Wformat=]
printf("%d.%s%s c: %d castle: %d ep square: %d eval: %d fifty: %d \n",
~^
%ld
(status - H) / 2 + (o ? 1 : 0), o ? " " : " ...", displaymove((status - 1)->m),
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
omega9.c: At top level:
omega9.c:148:15: error: storage size of ‘tv’ isn’t known
struct _timeb tv;
^~

[tpoppins]

Compiles without errors with MinGW GCC 5.3.0 into a.exe -- attached.