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Wow! Very impressive. Fast too.

Good work. Thanks for shring this with us.

cheers

I'm pretty impressed with some of the winboard compatible engines on the net (there's tons). I get beat every time.. one minute I'm there with all of my pieces, the next they're gone and I'm check mated , I included the 2 best/fastest ones i've tried and which doesn't use a wierd dielect of the protocol.

here is the protocol:

winboard = windows version
xboard = linux version
they both use the same protocol

http://www.tim-mann.org/xboard/engine-intf.html

Umm - when you 'quit' the game from the debugger, it leaves a hagrid process running which uses almost all the cpu cycles untill you kill it with task manager.

cheers

rsts wrote:Umm - when you 'quit' the game from the debugger, it leaves a hagrid process running which uses almost all the cpu cycles untill you kill it with task manager.

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yeah I noticed that

Updated, no longer need the debugger to see the output and added a whole bunch more

Wow, this is really cool! Thanks for sharing!

The bishop in this picture thinks it is a Queen or Rook and moved 1 square sideways and put me in check.

Thanks for the feedback guys!

@Derek, I'll look into it (being black is still a new feature with probably some bugs)

edit: I see what happened. It's a bug with the castling.

k updated to rev 1 to fix the castling bug

plans for next version:

- pawn promotion
- begin work on ics protocol
- redo the sprite handling