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Chess Cheaters and Regular Cheaters are all Cheaters

June 9, 2007 – 3:50 pm

The first time I ever heard of people cheating, it was Cyrano whispering sweet nothings into Christian’s ear to whisper to win Roxane’s love. Since then there has been a long line of people whispering answers to people in all sorts of ways. In fact some kids in China just got busted for whispering into [...]

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Some Chess 2.0 (Final Release)

May 26, 2007 – 6:10 pm

The final release of Some Chess 2.0 is out now. It is, as far as I know, completely bug free.
Now it is time to gear up for version 2.5. Mostly that means adding translations, that’s going to be the focus. But there will also be a limited number of new features.
The big news [...]

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A PHP Fischer Random Chess Function

May 26, 2007 – 2:16 pm

This is of limited use, but I thought I’d share the source code to a function I wrote the other day to setup a game of Fischer Random Chess, also known as Chess 960.
The basic idea of Fischer Random Chess is that you shuffle up the back row. The rules say that; 1) the bishops [...]

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Some Chess 2.0 release candidate 3

April 19, 2007 – 11:46 pm

My fingers are crossed… it looks like this might be the last (or near the last) version of Some Chess before it is a full release. I’ve been working on Some Chess for almost a year now, and while I can see places to improve I have to say that I am pleased with the [...]

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