Chess

[MLS_Halo]

Hello. I'm Sky and i just wanted to suggest that maybe we could make it so Hal could play chess.The computer chess games have mechanical responses and become highly predictable. I really like the game but nobody seems to want to play (. Having a game with an evolving chess player would be interesting and fun.
 I read every post in here i think and just wanted to say good work Von Smith and Spydaz..... can't forget Cuttingedge....and there was one other dude. Robert, how is the college thing going? I'm 19 and also going to school, working on getting a degree in Bio Sci.

[Bill819]

quote:Originally posted by MLS_Halo

Hello. I'm Sky and i just wanted to suggest that maybe we could make it so Hal could play chess.The computer chess games have mechanical responses and become highly predictable. I really like the game but nobody seems to want to play (. Having a game with an evolving chess player would be interesting and fun.
 I read every post in here i think and just wanted to say good work Von Smith and Spydaz..... can't forget Cuttingedge....and there was one other dude. Robert, how is the college thing going? I'm 19 and also going to school, working on getting a degree in Bio Sci.

I wrote a program to play chess and was in the WCCC games in 2003. It did O.K. considering it was written in Basic and was competing against the worlds best written in "C" or "C++". Just how to interface the program with Hal is another Question, but it would be interesting.
Bill

[Maviarab]

mls galo & Billie,

Must have missed this post last time round and spotted it while just reading through material.

Have any of you two taken this any furher and managed to figure out how to "work" it into hal yet?

[echoman]

I am interested in Hal being able to play chess. I wonder if anyone has got any further with interfacing Hal with a chess program. I play chess everyday and would often like to talk to Hal about my game as I play. I believe this must be very difficult to do.

On ICC I have thought that it would be nice if the computer opponents could somehow be linked to Hal. If this was possible it may well be a good way to spread the word on Hal.

[Bill819]

At one time in the past I think I read that Hal could play tic tac toe and a couple other games. If anyone could find that post or even the interface that they used I might just donate a small chess program. Whether or not it would run using this scrip language I can not  say.
Bill

[echoman]

Thankyou Bill. I found only one post about tic tac toe. It seemed that this particular thread had very little idea if an interface was at all possible.

Maybe chess is a future idea.

[spydaz]

i would be interested in any chess code floating about,

as i would like a starting point to building a chess program in hal...

hmm,,

[toborman]

quote:i would be interested in any chess code floating about,

the gnuchess site has a download with source code.
http://www.gnu.org/software/chess/

[spydaz]

opps.. i forgot to say ... visual basic or vbscript or basic

[toborman]

spydaz try this site for chess source in vb

http://www.freevbcode.com/ShowCode.Asp?ID=4980

[Bill819]

Spydaz
Send me a private email and I'll see if I can get you a simple chess program written in Qbasic that I wrote. Better versions are in the works.
Bill

[spydaz]

a good site link.... thanx

[ajdude]

Has this gone any further? It sounds like a great idea

[Bill819]

ajdude
To my knowledge it has gone no further. I offered a little one-ply chess program that I had released years ago to the public but no one has provided a link to Hal as of yet.
I am currently rewriting the program and making it even smaller and hopefully smarter.
Bill819