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Duncan Edwards Jones wrote: testes driven development ... requires a programmer with "balls"
"Fairy tales do not tell children the dragons exist. Children already know that dragons exist. Fairy tales tell children the dragons can be killed."
- G.K. Chesterton
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Ah, the Shaman coder. Not to be confused with the Terrorist coder, or the serial killer coder.
Both of which actually want to kill you with their coding, and coding style.
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There are so many chess playing programs/apps out there that ye canna see the wood for the trees so I'd be grateful for any recommendations for one to assist with chess problems. I don't want a solver (that's just lazy!) I do want to be able to set up a position and then play against the AI from that point. Ideally it would be possible to restore the position at the flick of a switch but that's not essential. Windows 10 compatible preferably but I don't mind running something else on a VM if necessary.
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Thanks. I wasn't really looking to buy anything as it literally is just going to be used for a weekly puzzle but ... you know ... it is only 128 days to Christmas!
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Battle Chess[^]. Use DOSBox to run it.
Bastard Programmer from Hell
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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Please no, I got addicted when I was at College!!!!!
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That was the rude version, wasn't it?
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Oooh please! 386, CGA cards?
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I think there was a "hi res" version - google will know. But I'm not going there...
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I got addicted when I was at college too...
... but it wasn't a stupid chess game.
veni bibi saltavi
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IIRC it was probably Festive Ale[^], but you were on the right track.
veni bibi saltavi
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..for hours, yes, but still not any good at winning chess
Bastard Programmer from Hell
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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Started a poor Chess player, got worse!!
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Who cares?
My tower eats your queen
Bastard Programmer from Hell
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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You just downloaded it again, didn't you?
Bastard Programmer from Hell
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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Can't use DosBox cos it's the Windows version so I had to set up an XP VM to look at it. Wow, does XP seem primitive to me now!
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A few of my favourites:
SrcChess[^]. Open source, here on CP, plays reasonably well.
SharpChess[^]. Open-source on GitHub[^]. Slightly stronger than SrcChess.
If you're looking for a very strong AI opponent, try the archaic Winboard[^] GUI with the Rybka[^] engine.
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Thanks, I will investigate.
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Do two monograms equal one diagram?
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Finally something what I understand almost without Google... But I'm more interesting in "Anna-gram"
modified 19-Jan-21 21:04pm.
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Is she Mamagram's eldest daughter?
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I'm not already sure about this, because Mamagram tries to cheat me with wrong histograms
modified 19-Jan-21 21:04pm.
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