Kotlin is a JVM language developed by JetBrains: http://kotlinlang.org gaining momentum among Android developers. Kotlin has interesting features like: It can be compiled to bytecode compatible with Java >=6, allowing to use a lot of Java 7-8 features (lambdas…) in Java…
One year ago my Carballo Chess Engine () was stuck: all the improvements that I was trying were not working, and I detected the main problem: I am a poor chess player so I will never be a good chess…
I released a chess app for the Blusens Web:TV device. This chess app is based on my chess engine Carballo and on the GWT interface by Lukas Laag (). I changed some parts of the Lukas interface to make it work…
Chess engine development is one of the most brain-crushing activities I’ve been involved on the last years. Last nigths I was working again on my Carballo Chess Engine with some advances. First of all I decided to leave Negamax and…
Jim Ablett has published a packaged executable for my Carballo chess engine. He also made a pretty logo for it, shown here. Check his page to download executables for Carballo and a lot of other chess engines: Jim Ablett’s Winboard…
The new version 2.0 adds the support to play online on freechess.org (FICS). You can play against people all around the world and compare your chess knowledge. Thousands of hours of entertainment with this new version. Also has many improvements…
Lukas Laag has written me about his new GUI for the Carballo Chess Engine using the Google Web Toolkit (GWT) and his SVG Graphics Library for GWT, libgwtsvg. GWT is provided from Google to develop applications in Javascript programming in…
At last, the first “stable” release of my chess engine. The main new features are: Static Exchange Evaluator (SEE): the biggest change, affects move ordering introducing more move generation phases, also affects LMR, etc. New “experimental” evaluation function, with King…
Two months ago I read a post about Toledo Nanochess in Microsiervos, and remembered my failed attemps to make a chess program in Pascal/Assembler when I was younger. So 13 years later I wrote my chess program from scratch in…
