Eschecs, a simple GUI written in Pascal

[Roland Chastain]

Hi Roland, very nice work! I like the layout and minimalistic look of the GUI.

Thank you.

The link you posted seems to be down however?

Edit: nevermind, I'll download the latest version from the link you lasted provided. Apologies for not reading the thread carefully!

Unfortunately I cannot edit the first message of the discussion. The home of the project is here: https://gitlab.com/rchastain/eschecs

Moderator, could you please edit the message and update the link?

[Roland Chastain]

Quick user guide.

To download the project (including libraries):

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git clone --recurse-submodules https://gitlab.com/rchastain/eschecs

To build the application (the Free Pascal compiler being installed):

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cd eschecs/source
make

To start the application:

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cd ..
./eschecs

There is a default engine (already compiled and included in the project).

You can set the engine strength like this:

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./eschecs -t 100

The engine will have 100 ms for each move.

You can use another engine like this:

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./eschecs /path/engine

[Roland Chastain]

Hello! I made some improvements to my Pascal chess library (1). By the way I found and fixed an important bug, so I decided to make another release of Eschecs.

For now there are only Linux binaries, since I don't have a Windows machine under the hand.

https://gitlab.com/rchastain/eschecs/-/tags/5.1.1

(1) The library is now able to read PGN file. There are demo programs and a Makefile in source/chess/demo/. You just need Free Pascal.

Thanks for your attention.

Roland