Thanks for the comment!

I'll post on talkchess as well. Personally I wouldnt mind giving away the source code. I dont plan to make money with the game, I just want people to play the game. If people want to use it to develop Economy Chess variants... I'd say: do your worst!

Still hoping someone can help me out getting on the road a bit (but maybe this is not the right place for it, or I am doing something wrong?).

If I want to add an AI that has at least bad/mediocre play, what would such an AI cost to create and implement?

Well, and any other information regarding ...

Still hoping that some one could help me out with a bit of information about how big and costly an AI for software like this will be.

If you got some valueable info.. let me know!

Interesting thread and well expressed opinions. Wouldn't it be an idea to archive those runs somewhere? People like Pieterhb could enter the results from their runs, then eventually you'll have many many runs at different time controls and hardware.

Also a bit ironic btw: chess, which is known for ...

Hey everyone!

I just typed a long message and thought I submitted, but appearantly it didn't :( First of all I'd like to say that I have much admiration for you. Not only the programming of the engine, but also to come up with a way to analyze the game and to decide what move the engine should do ...