Adam Hair wrote:Cool! I just added the link to the YouTube videos to the "Chess Programming Resources" page at my blog.

That's great, thanks!

ChessDrone wrote:Excellent work!
In the name of all those who will see your tutorial, I say Thank you very much!

Nice of you, thanks

Following on from the "Engine In Javascript" thread, I finished my YouTube video series today, programming a simple chess engine.

The ReadMe is here: http://bluefever.net/Downloads/ViceReadMe.html
The Engine is here: http://bluefever.net/Downloads/Vice10.zip

There are 32 & 64 bit compiles ...

Yeah, sadly, webworkers are the only way to go really. You can also process the search in chunks, but that basically requires writing an iterative search, which is not as fun.

Yes, the search in chunks would be a PITA to program.

According to caniuse.com, IE 9 and older do not support webworkers ...

I found a small bug in GarboChess, nothing to do with the playing, but the UI. If I undo moves, it doesn't remove them from the movelist, and adds the new moves on

It's a great App, though. I added the "current FEN" also today

On thing I meant to ask, as I'm new to JS - do you have any tips on not blocking the GUI when the engine is thinking? I notice Garbochess does not. I couldn't find much info on doing this, apart from a webworker, which didn't seem right.

Thanks!

Awesome job! Great to see another strong JS engine on the scene :).

I played them against each other at 2s a move, and Garbochess (http://forwardcoding.com/projects/ajaxchess/chess.html) barely prevailed, although it was a toss-up in the midgame for quite a while. My guess is that they are quite ...

Tried to play some other game at 10s per move, but in every game I sooner or later get to the point where the UI does not display a move from the engine anymore. However, if after a short while I hit the takeback button, a completely different position is shown. It looks as if at some point the UI ...

Tried to play some other game at 10s per move, but in every game I sooner or later get to the point where the UI does not display a move from the engine anymore. However, if after a short while I hit the takeback button, a completely different position is shown. It looks as if at some point the UI ...

Hello,

playing with your engine I came across a bug: in this position, your engine as White plays the surprising Nf4xe2

[FEN "4r3/3k3p/pr2p3/2p2p2/2Pb1N2/7P/P3R1P1/4R2K w - - 0 1"]
If I take back, then the Re2 turns Black.

Good start anyway, I''m using in my project garbochess.js at the moment ...