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On this page you can download
my own chess program, called Chessterfield.
Having finished grammar school in 1995, I found some time
to improve my C/C++ knowledge. In a momentary lapse of reason I committed
myself to the task of writing a fully object oriented chess program. Gradually,
programming, especially chess programming, became one of my favourite hobbies.
If you are interested in the results of my work: all you need is a windows
PC (NT 4.0, WIN95 or WIN98) and a few minutes of time to download my program.
The program is freeware and I don't take any responsibilities for its behaviour.
As written above, Chessterfield is fully object oriented.
This concept has several advantages: object oriented programming allows
you to write clearly structured chess programs with modern interfaces and
good possibilities for position analysis.
The following features are implemented in the current
version:
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32 bit multithreading
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graphical user interface
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permanent brain
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alpha-beta search
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zero move
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some heuristics
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variable search time and search depth
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position editor
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hash tables
I have not yet found time to implement the following important
features:
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opening and endgame library
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PGN-Support
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print service
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context sensitive help
From the points listed above, you can guess that my program
is still far from being a chess genius, but nevertheless it will be a good
partner for any hobby player.
Dieter Steinwender and Frederic Friedel have written a very
good book about computer chess:
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Dieter Steinwender, Frederic Friedel; Schach am PC; Markt&Technik;
German.
Lots of people have done good work collecting links to other
computer chess pages. Here are just two of them:
I would be glad to hear your opinion on my program. You can
easily contact me by e-mail (m.luescher@datacomm.ch).
Thanks for reading this page and I hope you enjoy playing chess with my
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