I wonder if I can beat thepenguin77 at chess?

I'm decent. But, ironically, I think making this game has made me better.

I have a suggestion: Make an option to have the AI "delay" a random amount each move so it can time out. The delay could be random, or it could depend on the rating of the move, delaying longer for a better move.

Well, I would do that, except I have a feeling it would make people really angry, especially since they know they are actually waiting for nothing.


Update!!

• Easter egg (cpu plays itself)
• Setting custom starting positions
• 50 move mate is toggleable (mostly because of previous 2)
• 83+BE and Nspire now throw errors
• My name is now aesthetically placed on the title screen
• Pixel removed from knight :P

I have a screenshot of the cpu playing itself, but of course it doesn't start from the beginning because I couldn't show you how I got there ;D (The way to get there is very logical, if you figure it out, don't tell everyone)

I've also been meaning to let you customize your starting positions, and now you can. The instructions screen set a new record for me with 19 individual text strings.

I think that this might be good enough to send off to ticalc.org. Let me know if you think anything is lacking, but I believe this is it. (On a side note, I have 8766 bytes of executable code)

I'm going to say calc-to calc link play would be a cool feature to add also. If it isn't feasible, that's ok too though. You've really done a bang-up job with this. =)

penguin77 do you have fritz 12? we could play through that

EDIT

Quote from: mrmprog on November 26, 2011, 01:00:49 pm

I have a suggestion: Make an option to have the AI "delay" a random amount each move so it can time out. The delay could be random, or it could depend on the rating of the move, delaying longer for a better move.

Well, I would do that, except I have a feeling it would make people really angry, especially since they know they are actually waiting for nothing.

you could have an option for that

This is now over on ticalc.org. So, to get the most recent version, you have to download it over there

And you know what, I think I'll put this in the Omni archives as well, I need to start doing that.

It's not *just* at ticalc, it's also featured.
http://www.ticalc.org/archives/news/articles/14/147/147694.html

Congrats on your fourth feature, ThePenguin!

I never got 100% clear what featured means.

EDIT: geez, found the ai vs ai easter egg ^.^

So I got chess off of ticalc it was version 1.1. I have an 83+BE, but my friend wanted it. So I tried to run it on my calculator, just for the heck of it, using mirage. It told me a BE wouldn't cut it and then exited out of the program and then mirage wouldn't load program names. Trying to run chess again while in this state causes a ram clear. And trying to exit mirage causes the calc to start displaying the ti os memory screen at 0 ram over the program less mirage image and then freezes there. I had to pull a battery.

I played the ai a couple of times. Once it took half my pieces before I could take any of theirs. Great job on this!