Category Archives: chess4j

Over the holidays I managed to find a little time to do some work on chess4j. It felt really good to dust the codebase off and make some improvements that have had real impact on playing strength. Up to this … Continue reading →

chess4j 1.2 is in the wild. There hasn’t been any new development lately in terms of new features or playing strength, but I have put some effort into improving code quality using the excellent Sonar Source tools. Minimal cyclomatic complexity. … Continue reading →

chess4j is a Java based chess program I’ve been developing in my copious spare time. It’s finally reached a level that I’m comfortable doing an official release. It is not a strong engine; in fact I’ve done almost nothing to … Continue reading →

Several weeks ago I wrote about Prophet, my C/C++ chess program. I described in that post the approach I was using in the ParseXBoard( ) method to map user input to a “handler function” using a table of function pointers. … Continue reading →