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| kenny-classiq-0-3-0-0-3238.zip | 2013-02-18 | 478.1 kB | |
| RIGHTS.txt | 2013-02-18 | 758 Bytes | |
| Version History.md | 2013-02-18 | 14.2 kB | |
| Versioning.md | 2013-02-18 | 3.8 kB | |
| INSTALL.txt | 2013-02-18 | 1.5 kB | |
| ReadMe.md | 2013-02-18 | 3.2 kB | |
| COPYING.txt | 2013-02-18 | 35.1 kB | |
| kenny-classiq-0-3-0-0-3238-setup.exe | 2013-02-18 | 853.7 kB | |
| kenny-classiq-0-2-0-0-2771-setup.exe | 2013-02-15 | 851.9 kB | |
| kenny-classiq-0-2-0-0-2771.zip | 2013-02-15 | 476.3 kB | |
| kenny-classiq-0-1-3-0-2198-setup.exe | 2013-02-14 | 25.2 MB | |
| kenny-clasiq-0-1-3-0-2198.zip | 2013-02-14 | 468.4 kB | |
| kenny-classiq-0-1-2081-setup.exe | 2013-02-13 | 25.2 MB | |
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Kenny ClassIQ
- Author: Kenshin Himura (Sudarsan Balaji)
- License: GNU GPL v3 (see COPYING.txt)
- Latest Application Version: 0.3 build 3238 (Version History)
- Latest Stable Version: 0.2 (Versioning)
- ReadMe Version: 2.5
Description
Kenny ClassIQ (read Kenny Classic) is something like my dream project. It is a chess engine with pure object oriented programming with close-to-real-world representation of the game inside the program using OOPS. Initially I thought of doing a similar thing in C++, but after trying to develop my other chess engine Kenny in this route, I found out that it is a difficult task, and switched to using Java for the programming instead. To learn how to do it, I created a similar, many-times-lesser-in-complexity project KenTacToe.
Having completed it successfully, I've gained the confidence to proceed with Kenny ClassIQ, named so because it is more class-oriented than Kenny, and because I want it to be intelligent. (A play with words landed me Kenny ClassIQ.) Also, I used this name so that people searching for my other chess engine Kenny can also find this more advanced chess engine (okay, yes, I wanted to name my chess engine Kenny, so).
Features
(Features refer to existing features in the latest stable version only).
(Words in italics represent class names)
Game-breaking features (why you can't play against it now):
- Plays only fixed search depth : 2 half moves mode.
- Does not know about draws or 3 move repetitions, but can find mate in 1 (because search depth is only 2, you see).
- Does not do promotion evaluation and search properly. Engine mostly crashes when thinking about promotions.
Niceties under the hood (why you should play against it later):
- Multi-protocol support: UCI and WinBoard.
- Better, human-like thinking planned, instead of boring, best, engine-like play.
- Better Move system (Players make Moves in the Game).
- Alpha Beta Principal Variation Search implemented fully. Also collects the PV.
- Automatic MoveList of Game updation.
- Better printMainLine() implementation.
- Better FEN implementation.
- Better-than-ever Console implementation, with synchronized reader, listener and executor threads.
Other features yet to come! :D
Branching
- master contains the latest minor revision.
- majrev contains the latest major revision.
- stable contains the latest stable code (minor version).
- working contains the latest code.
Goals
Long Term
- To have a close-to-real-world representation of the game inside the program
Short Term
- To add king safety.
- To fix promotion bug.
- To add timing controls.
- To finish adding commentary to all uploaded files.