Questions tagged [chess]
This tag is for concepts involving the game of Chess.
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C++ Chess Engine - Initialization of Magic Bitboard Attack Tables
I've just completed the generation of magic bitboard attack tables for bishops and rooks in my C++ chess engine.
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The functions generateMagicNumbers()...
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Minimal Chess Web GUI with Flask
Being a big chess fan, I finally started developing my own chess tool, however I'm already quite dissatisfied with where it's going...
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Checking if a chessboard presented as a dictionary, is a valid chessboard
Here's my solution to the Chess Dictionary Validator project in Automate the boring stuff by Al Sweigart. I'd love to know how I can improve this code so that it's more efficient. Thank you
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2-Player Chess in WinForms V.2 (With Separation of Concerns)
Introduction
After getting initial feedback on my first working version of this Chess WinForms game here, I have used the suggestions and comments from there to come up with this new version, trying ...
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Fully-functioning chess game in Python
This post is in succession to this question. I have implemented all functionalities like castling, en-passant, pawn promotion etc. 50 move rule and 3-move repetition is pending.
I would like my code ...
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2-Player Chess in WinForms
Introduction
I decided to program a two player Chess game in C# windows forms to help me to improve my programming skills and OOP skills.
I have come to a working finished program (as far as I can ...
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Chess Game with GUI in C++ using SDL2
Introduction
So, I recently completed a chess game with a GUI in Python, using Pygame. Upon research, I learned that Pygame is built on SDL, and since I wanted to practice C++ more, I decided to code ...
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Text based chess game in Python
I have reached a significant milestone since the start of my chess game project. I have implemented all basic functionality. There is no castling, en passant and pawn promotion yet but I have ...
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Chess position representation with FEN parser
I'm developing a UCI chess engine and as part of my engine I need a position representation that stores the position of every piece on the board and all the information about the game, like castling ...
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Checkers move validator in Python 3
I have 3 classes to create a simple checkers move validator. The entry point is checkers.py and is mostly complete with a few things hard-coded. For example, the auto-generated board (if none is given)...
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Java 2 Player Object Oriented CLI Chess Game
I just finished implementing a Java 2 player CLI chess game, it involves player putting in commands (i.e "move e2 e4" to move or "attack d1 d5" to capture.).
I am trying to follow ...
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Is MVC an overkill for a chess CLI game?
I am working on a CLI chess game that only involves 2 human players, I decided to make it follow the MVC architecture to ensure separation of concern and to make the possibility of a GUI/web ...
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Chess game setup: Initial board state
This app only creates a chess board set to the start-of-game state. It does nothing else. I'd appreciate feedback on the files that are relevant to this board setup (all shown below: board.cpp, pieces....
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Can two knights pieces attack one another from current positions?
I am working on my Python skills and would like some feedback on this problem I have tried to solve. I would like to return a boolean if two knights at their current position can attack each other ...
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Automate the Boring Stuff Chapter 5 Project - Chess Dictionary Validator
First post, very new to programming. This is my solution for the chapter 5 project of Automate the Boring Stuff and I wondered if I am making any mistakes and is there a way to make it more efficient ...
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Making this python chess engine faster
I've implemented a chess engine using the python chess move generation library (which I assumed to be reasonably fast), and have implemented various optimisation techniques for search and move ...
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C++ Chess Engine - (Magic)Bitboard-based move generation
I am currently writing a bitboard-based Chess Engine in C++, and I recently finished the move generation. I am using move-lookup-tables that get pre-calculated at application startup for sliding and ...
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Chess game for two human players
I'm relatively new to programming, as in my second semester of college. To practice C, I started work on a chess game. I'm wondering if there are ways I could improve my code, make it look more ...
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Basic chess engine
I'm playing around with a chess engine that I wanted it to know all the rules such as pawn promotion, en-passant, and castling. Currently, I'm using a basic Negamax for the AI but I plan to improve at ...
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Find all possible ways a rook can move to a diagonally opposite corner without going back to an already visited square
This question seems similar to this one: Find number of unique paths to reach opposite grid corner but is entirely not. For moving from upper-left corner to lower-right corner we are not restricted to ...
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Chess quiz web site
I'm working on a personal project to build a website that quizzes users on chess opening theory moves. I know my code is not very object-oriented but I am working on refactoring it right now. I just ...
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First attempt at chess in Python #2
Almost a month ago I asked for some review of my first attempt at Chess in Python, with the main goal being to start learning inheritance in Python. It can be found here: First attempt at chess in ...
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Clean up Knight Movement method in a chess project with duplicate code
I am writing a chess project using C++ and SDL. In this method I calculate all available moves a Knight can make and I want to refactor it. I basically move the knight Up/Down 2 squares and then Left/...
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First attempt at chess in Python
Since I have barely used inheritance in Python, I wanted to make something that would make use of it so I have attempted to create a game of chess, where each piece uses inheritance. I also did this ...
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I'm writing a python chess UI+backend and I would like feedback on where there are issues before I continue to expand it
Firstly, the code relies on importing images, so I'll link to the repository as well as including the code here. If it's an issue that images need to be downloaded OR there is another solution please ...
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Chess engine generates moves
I am currently writing a chess engine to improve my C++. I was able to improve my first results in terms of performance. (It is still really weak, but it does not lose a queen in one move)
I ended up ...
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Chess engine for C++
Basic Description
What is the program for?
This is just a hobby project for me to improve at coding, not a serious one.
What does the program do?
It can take a chess position (not including variations ...
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Chess in Kotlin
This is an updated version of my first question:
Chess game in Kotlin
I wrote the following Chess logic in Kotlin and am looking for feedback to make the code cleaner and follow good software design ...
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Chess game in Kotlin
I wrote the following Chess logic in Kotlin and am looking for feedback to make the code cleaner and follow good software design principles. I tried to adhere to object-oriented design.
Some notes:
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Chess engine for chess without checks in C++
Project Description:
Chess without checks: A chess variant where you can take the enemy king.
This engine implementation is for chess without checks. Since checks don't exist, expect the code to not ...
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minmax evaluation with alpha beta pruning [closed]
I'm making some small board game and wanted to code a very simple greed AI with this algorithm. It turns out it doesn't play the most greedy moves, it is simply not working. I'd appreciate any ...
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Simple console chess game C++
So I implemented a simple console-based, offline player vs. player chess game in C++17. I am aware that there are multiple chess-specific features I have not yet added, but the core gameplay works ...
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Little chess game with python
I am pretty sure my code does not follow PEP 8 and would definitely want someone to point out my errors specifically. I am open any form of criticism or suggestions.
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Chess Dictionary Validator (Python) (Automate The Boring Stuff)
This is an exercise in the Automate The Boring Stuff book. I am supposed to create a function that takes a dictionary argument that represents a chess board (ex: {'1h': 'bking', '6c': 'wqueen', '2g': ...
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Chess game object-oriented
This is an object-oriented Chess game. So far, I have implemented the pawn and board functionalities and I would love to get a ...
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Parsing a Chess FEN
What is an FEN?
Link to the Wikipedia page: Forsyth–Edwards Notation
An FEN is a very simple way of representing a chess position in a single line string. It contains the following data
Which piece ...
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Hackerrank's Queen's Attack II
https://www.hackerrank.com/challenges/queens-attack-2/problem
A queen is standing on an nxn chessboard. The chessboard's rows are numbered from 1 to n, going from bottom to top; its columns are ...
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Finding the number of moves a knight can perform while standing on a given square
This is a problem from CodeSignal which can be founded over here
Here is an image on what we have to do:
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Simple chess engine in Python
I have programmed a chess AI in python as a first project to learn both Python and the inner workings of a chess engine and wanted to have some input on syntax, code efficiency and any tips in general ...
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C++ chess game engine using Minimax and alpha-beta pruning;
My chess game is over, everything has been finished, except for some special (like en passant)moves.
The main part of the game is its engine which I have coded using the Minimax algorithm with alpha-...
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C++ generator function for a Chess game
Here is my code for a move generator function for a chess engine. It's currently working perfectly and returning fully legal moves. How can i improve it.
I am looking to improve this generator ...
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Move generation n c++ for Knight [closed]
So I have been working on this Chess project and for that I need a move generator. I wish to know if I can improve my code for the move generation for the Knight. Here is my current code;
Let me tell ...
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Transforming UCI-move into bitboard, chess
I want to transform a UCI-move into bitboard.
for example a2a3 -> 32768, 8388608
I need to assign [7,6,...,0] to [a,b,...,h] so that for each letter i have the assigned number(n) to calculate 2^n
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Decode FEN string into separate variables for the 6 categories
FEN strings are compact representations of chess board positions which allows you to derive the necessary information to start playing a chess game from that position. This includes things like the ...
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Chess application with GUI and AI in Java
I've included the files that I felt were relevant (i.e I haven't included the individual pieces in the inheritance hierarchy). I'm particularly curious as to whether the system as a whole is ...
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Find the available squares for rooks in empty board using boolean arrays
I will describe two techniques, then the question will be how I can make an algorithm that is more efficient, if possible.
I want to find an efficient way to determine the squares where the pieces on ...
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Chess game for my students
I teach programming, and I currently teach my class about inheritance, abstract classes, and mixins.
I wrote this code as an example, and I want to be sure it is as good as possible before I release ...
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A simple chess engine in Haskell
This is my first Haskell project so I don't really have a good feel for what makes Haskell code clean, so they'll be lots of things that can be improved.
Things I have a gut feeling are bad design:
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Cleaning up Javascript event listener that manages game-loop
As I added more features to my chess game, such as an endgame screen. I eventually ended up having a lot of duplicate code, and complex logic with lots of nested if statements in loops. The usual ...
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Design to separate client API from internal API in Kotlin for a chess engine
This is a follow-up from my previous review on this site. To be clear, the code is stand-alone, and does not depend on the previous review.
As before my goal is to come up with a design for a chess ...
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