Archive for June, 2010

Creating a JQuery and PHP powered chess engine

Sunday, June 20th, 2010

Im currently writing a fully functioning chess engine written in PHP with a JQuery front end. Its going to support a dictionary of openings, endgame tables, pondering and use a minimax game tree with alpha beta pruning….

Check out a screen shot below

PHPChess

Hopefully I’ll have something up which people can play by the end of the week, tho it might not support all the features mentioned above straight away.

Update 29th July I got side tracked with some other stuff, I’m still working on this, its just going to take a while to finish off. So far I’ve got a basic move generator which passes perft tests I’m still working on the board evaluation function.