Chess

[Browni3141]

Do any of you guys enjoy playing chess? Do you have a rating? Have you designed a chess engine? If yes then perhaps you could share it. Personally, I love the game but have a hard time finding real people to play with.

[firedraco]

I play it occasionally. Nowhere near often enough to be good at it though. :P

[Zhuge]

I would, if I wasn't so horrible at it. A pity, since I tend to like tactical things. I also considered trying Shogi or Go but I don't remember the rules at all nor do I have boards and equipment for either.

[ultifinitus]

Enjoy: yes. Win at? No.

I'm going to revamp my old chess game and make some great AI and make myself good. I tend to push myself like that =)

[Disch]

I'm decent, but I not like an expert player or anything.

I haven't played in years though.

[z05DSL3A]

I used to play a lot but haven't for a long time.

I started learning to play Go^* a year or so ago. Had the intension of coding an engine to play against but apparently this deceptively easy game is a pain for a computer to play. I might have to give it another go (both learning to play and designing the engine).


* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Go_(game)

[ultifinitus]

+1 for everyone who has mentioned go, I still have only played online versions, but for years I've wanted to start tourneys locally.

[Browni3141]

Grey Wolf wrote:

Had the intension of coding an engine to play against but apparently this deceptively easy game is a pain for a computer to play.

Cool, maybe I'll have a Go at it after I learn some GUI stuff. A console game of Go doesn't sound very appealing.

[z05DSL3A]

You may find Gnu Go interesting:
http://www.gnu.org/software/gnugo/gnugo.html

[horance89]

I play it...and i also consider myself to be god at it...when i put pacience in game i win..otherwise i tend to be very unstable:))
I like chess very much and I am thinking to make an chess engine but for now i have other priorities tought...

Edited:
sry about "god" thing...
it suposed to be "good" but ...

[Browni3141]

Would any of you be interested in playing email chess with me?

[Browni3141]

No takers? I don't really care how good you are. You just need a little spare time and knowledge of chess notation. My email is [e-mail].

horance89 wrote:

I also consider myself to be god

Wow, what an ego! :O
Bring it on, chess god!

I think you meant 'good'.

@ultifinitus: Practice makes perfect ;)

[ultifinitus]

Browni, care to make an online chess game with me, then use that?

[Mathhead200]

Oo Chess... I made a connect4 engine... that I can't beat. :\ What...? I didn't say anything...

[hamsterman]

Browni, care to make an online chess game with me, then use that?

It's not hard to make a simple online chess game at all. The problem is that if you do it the simple way, one of the players needs to be the server and the other needs to know his ip. People tend to be reluctant to give their ip. I wonder why :). I suppose the right way would be to use a server to match the two players, but I don't have one, don't know if I can use some hosting site for that and don't have any experience in this field altogether.
So if someone could explain to me how to do this properly, I'd be glad to make one.

[rapidcoder]

You can easily find a good and cheap PHP hosting. And if you have $10/year you can even do without commercials/banners, etc. stuff on your page. So the server really should not be a huge problem.

[hamsterman]

I know that I can find a place to host a page, but can it really be used as a game server?

[ultifinitus]

I have a server. Using it for my iPhone app.

[Mathhead200]

http://www.byond.com

So now you have an excuse to learn a new language... :)

[MottMan]

I love chess. I entered one tournament though I didn't last too long. Couple games and I was out.

I've now moved on to the tactical world of Warhammer 40, 000.