Re: python chess engines

2016-05-07 Thread Christopher Reimer
On 5/3/2016 10:13 PM, DFS wrote: Wanted to start a new thread, rather than use the 'motivated' thread. Can you play your game at the console? Nope. Only displays the board on the console. An early version had the forward movement for pawns implemented. The way I think about a chess engine i

Re: Python & chess

2006-08-24 Thread Paul Boddie
Will McGugan wrote: > > I have written a chess module that may be of use to you. > > http://www.willmcgugan.com/2006/06/18/chesspy/ See also ChessBoard - a nice implementation of chess using pygame: http://www.pygame.org/projects/9/282/ Paul -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-li

Re: Python & chess

2006-08-24 Thread tobiah
> Hmmm. I think that if you need to write a very clever chess game, then > you need to use very fast routines, written in C or even assembly. Oh, right. Speed. I thought that you were talking about some mismatch of capabilities. Toby -- Posted via a free Usenet account from http://www.teran

Re: Python & chess

2006-08-24 Thread Laszlo Nagy
tobiah írta: > Paolo Pantaleo wrote: > >> Well Python is not a good language for writing a chess engine >> > > I'm curious; how does python fall short here, and what are the > features that make some other language more suitable for the > task? > Hmmm. I think that if you need to write

Re: Python & chess

2006-08-24 Thread Will McGugan
Paolo Pantaleo wrote: > Well Python is not a good language for writing a chess engine (even if > a chess engine exists: > http://www.kolumbus.fi/jyrki.alakuijala/pychess.html), but it could be > grat for chess interfaces, for drawing boards, and similar things. I > foudn out a library for these thi

Re: Python & chess

2006-08-24 Thread tobiah
Paolo Pantaleo wrote: > Well Python is not a good language for writing a chess engine I'm curious; how does python fall short here, and what are the features that make some other language more suitable for the task? Toby -- Posted via a free Usenet account from http://www.teranews.com -- htt