simple Chess AI?

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Mon Sep 05, 2005 10:29 am

Hi,

iam looking for a very simple Chess-Ai written in C++.
Does anyone of you know a such a ChessAI?

Or has anyone another solution for my problem?
Cause, i really don't know to create a Chess.AI,
I have created a board using Irrlicht, but know iam stuck.

FlyHigh · Post by **FlyHigh** » Mon Sep 05, 2005 11:03 am

Chess AI is the hardest AI to write, mostly because its a game of perfect information (both players can see all of the game, unlike say poker where you only see your own cards)

Theres quite a good series (about 8 articles, i think) on http://www.gamedev.net -> articles -> AI. Although its a differcult read without prior programming/AI experience.

I had to do a chess game last year at uni, it didn't have to have AI so i just put one in the choose a random move from all available each turn, although playing AI against itself was quite fun

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Mon Sep 05, 2005 7:59 pm

Mmmh, ok thanks. Maybe its better to create a random Move-Generator instead of a real Ai.

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Tue Sep 06, 2005 3:06 am

Well a random move generator could be easier but I don't think it would be a particularly strong chess player

You might google GNU Chess you can look at it's source code for ideas.

puh · Post by **puh** » Tue Sep 06, 2005 8:08 pm

http://p4wn.sourceforge.net/5k/
5K AI

Tip: JavaScript is pretty much just like C++

Megaman · Post by **Megaman** » Wed Sep 07, 2005 10:24 am

it's all based on backtracking...

bitplane · Post by **bitplane** » Tue Sep 13, 2005 6:44 pm

I wouldn't recommend that 5k chess game, when faced with checkmate the computer cheats.
i feel like i've been robbed

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Wed Sep 14, 2005 8:17 pm

If you want something simpler and can read python look here:

http://www.kolumbus.fi/jyrki.alakuijala/pychess.html