Chess2x V0.1 Released

[EvilDragon]

ParkyDR released a Frontend for gnuchess: Chess2x
(gnuchess is included in the archive)

I guess I don't have to tell you what you can do with that, do I?

Download: Chess2x v0.1
Homepage: http://www.freenetpages.co.uk/hp/drparker/gp2x.html

 

[KZouLoN]

Ouch! Someone beat me to it...

 

[michaeljustman]

This is great. I love it.

 

[reaper79]

Very nice, thank you for this.

 

[gnyffel]

Yes! Chess! Thank you!

 

[dcgms_parachute_account_]

Yay! I've been waiting for a new chess game for the 2x

Many thanks!

 

[Tweak]

Outstanding!

Thank you.

 

[Parkydr]

Thanks for the comments

Ouch! Someone beat me to it...

Sorry about that, it's happened to me before too.



Ghanji has produced a skin and spotted a bug - when en passent occurs, the pawn isn't removed from the display. Gnu chess knows it's gone so the game isn't ruined.

I'll try to get an update out soon with a fix and at least a skin selector and maybe mp3 playback.

 

[Lithium337]

I think i also found a bug. You can't capture the Queen with a Pawn! It happened three times to me. I always get the "illegal move" msg. BTW, the King was not under attack.
Here the screenshoot:

Is this how it's supposed to be, or are there some rules I'm not aware of?
I also have no idea how to do the castling move!

 

[Ghanji]

I also have no idea how to do the castling move!

Well, just move the king to the target field, works fine,

I have a further question, or rather a feature request maybe. Are there any opening books included? It doesn´t seem so. This would be nice, maybe this would reduce processing time in the opening and push strength. I would not care how many Megabyte of opening books you put in, couldn´t be enough
Ghanji

 

[Parkydr]

I think i also found a bug. You can't capture the Queen with a Pawn! It happened three times to me. I always get the "illegal move" msg. BTW, the King was not under attack.
Here the screenshoot:

Is this how it's supposed to be, or are there some rules I'm not aware of?
I also have no idea how to do the castling move!

I don't know why that should happen, gnuchess does the validation. I've tried it with a 2 player game and pawns can take queens.

If it happens again, save it and post the save file or copy out the move list, I can't read the one in the image.

I also have no idea how to do the castling move!

Well, just move the king to the target field, works fine,

I have a further question, or rather a feature request maybe. Are there any opening books included? It doesn´t seem so. This would be nice, maybe this would reduce processing time in the opening and push strength. I would not care how many Megabyte of opening books you put in, couldn´t be enough
Ghanji

Gnuchess does have opening books but I haven't got round to adding them yet, I have to fiddle with the data path in gnuchess so it isn't absolute.

 

[Parkydr]

I've got the en passent fixed and the skin selector working.

Ghanji: Is it ok if I include your wood skin with v0.2?

I should be able to add the gnuchess opening book too.

In fact it's possible to do it now if you can open a terminal session (telnet/sterm/serial) on the gp2x as follows:

1. Extract book_1.01.pgn into the chess2xdata directory
2. Start a terminal session and cd to the chess2xdata directory
3. type: ./gnuchess
4. in gnuchess type: book add book_1.01.pgn
5. Wait a long time
6. quit

 

[Ghanji]

Ghanji: Is it ok if I include your wood skin with v0.2?

Hi Parkydr, of course you can put in into v0.2
I wanted to add some more highlights to the black pieces, I think I will update it this evening.
Great news about the opening books and bugfixing so far,
thanks a lot,
Ghanji

 

[Parkydr]

Thanks, I would feel a bit silly adding a skin selector when there's only one skin

 

[Parkydr]

Version 0.2 is now available

1) Fixed en passent
2) Added skin selector
3) Added Ghanji's wood skin (Thank's Ghanji)
3) Turned the board round when playing as black
4) Added Gnuchess openings book
5) Level and skin saved between runs
6) Joystick does diagonals

Sorry no mp3 yet

 

[Lithium337]

I don't know why that should happen, gnuchess does the validation. I've tried it with a 2 player game and pawns can take queens.
If it happens again, save it and post the save file or copy out the move list, I can't read the one in the image.

OK, problem solved with version 02. I was tryin' to take the Queen with a pawn which acctually wasn't there due to the en passent move, but i never notice it

 

[daclassicgamingmaster]

ah, im so stupid, how do you install this?

all the gnu files make my head hurt

 

[virusx]

This chess2x is hard to beat. i like it!
Thanks you !

 

[Ghanji]

I woule like to add some more feature requests, in order of priority:

take back move,
display (difference of) taken pieces
force computer to move,
hint-option,
(sound implementation (move sound, take-piece sound))

regards,
Ghanji

 

[Parkydr]

I'll see what I can do. I'm just getting the source code ready for release.

I think take back, force move and hint are standard chess engine protocol options

display (difference of) taken pieces

What do you mean exactly?