Re: package proposal: Games_Chess

Review: quick look at the code Vote: +1 Account: yavo Comments: pretty sweet Is the above the new way of voting, or do people use it because it looks nice Yavor Tomas V.V.Cox wrote:

Review: cursory review the code Vote: +1 Account: cox Comments: Cool stuff Greg :-) Tomas V.V.Cox Wednesday, October 8, 2003, 4:51:27 AM, Greg Beaver wrote:

Hi,

Games_Chess is a fully functional chessboard simulator. It has full "knowledge" of all the rules of chess, and can calculate

- checkmate - stalemate - 50 move draw - draw by repetition

as well as parse a FEN (Farnsworth-Edwards Notation) string describing a chessboard position, and any SAN (Standard Algebraic Notation) string describing a chess move. It can also perform a chess move based on the starting and ending squares.

The package has several uses including the obvious ones:

- playing chess against other people through a visual interface program such as the one at chess.chiaraquartet.net - validation of a series of chess moves

It is fully unit-tested, and has all the tests included with the package.

To take full advantage of the package, prior to installation, run these two changes to your configuration:

$ pear config-set data_dir /path/to/doc_root/pear $ pear config-set tests_dir /path/to/doc_root/pear/tests

after doing this, you can browse to the HTML example at http://localhost/pear/Games_Chess/HTMLChess.php, and to the unit tests at http://localhost/pear/tests/Games_Chess/testsuite.php

Source code is viewable at:

http://chess.chiaraquartet.net/docs/__filesource/fsource_Games_Chess__Chess.php.html http://chess.chiaraquartet.net/docs/__filesource/fsource_Games_Chess__ChessStandard.php.html

Package can be installed via:

pear install http://chess.chiaraquartet.net/Games_Chess-0.1.tgz

API Documentation at:

http://chess.chiaraquartet.net/docs

Online demo of HTML chess-playing program based on Games_Chess at:

http://chess.chiaraquartet.net

Regards, Greg

-- Yavor Shahpasov yavo@siava.org