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Chess

I’ve made a simple chess engine that can play a close approximation of chess.  It doesn’t currently handle check, proper terminal positions (checkmate, draws),   en passent, or castling.  The engine uses alpha-beta pruning as a search technique, but only looks forward 3 moves per side.  The entire code is about 600 lines and took only a few hours to write.

Future work would require implementing these missing features, adding an opening/endgame database, and performance optimizations.

You can download the executable here.

During highschool (this is a pretty old project…), we determined it would be a good idea to hook up a PS/2 keyboard to our calculators.  We also thought that it would be nice to enable a basic 4-function calculator mode to interrupt long-running calculations.  Additionally we made a bunch of random assembly and basic programs.

I’ve lost most of the code, but downloaded a copy from Chris’s site.  Check it out ti89.zip, or check out Chris’s site.

I’ve not been actively working on my website for some time, so I’ve decided to simplify it by making it a wordpress blog instead of manually making the website.  This will allow me to focus on content rather than laying it out.

Expect a few frequent updates as I post about old projects I’ve done.