The code isn't licensed for use (please don't modify it for your variation) but it's posted on github publicly, feel free to read my HTTP server with database backend for inspiration of how such a thing could work: https://github.com/pciet/wichess
There's a web client that works on smartphones at https://github.com/pciet/wichess/tree/master/web/html. I'd say the process of making such a thing is involved (responsive web design: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Responsive_web_design) but with web you don't have to deal with app stores. Running a custom app isn't great on iOS and I can't speak for other platforms. I don't speak for the language developers but as far as I can tell Go is always going to be tied to Google's business of datacenter-based network and web services, so if you want your game as something other than hosted on a network server then you may be better off with a language specialized for your platform of choice like Swift for iOS (an improved Objective-C), Java for Android, Javascript for a web browser implementation, or a language for desktop apps. Although in my opinion Go is a better C and I'd use it for general purpose programming with the garbage collector in mind. My understanding is that Go does have a compiler path for ARM devices. Chess requires promotion, en passant, and castling, all three of which add unique cases to the engine or interface, so keep those in mind as you begin. You may look at Stockfish (https://github.com/official-stockfish/Stockfish) for an open-source regular chess engine written in C++. Modifying Stockfish may be a good path although if you distribute it in any way then you must provide the source code because of the GPL. Matt On Friday, November 24, 2017 at 9:23:06 PM UTC-6, Hugh Aguilar wrote: > > I invented a chess variation called: Elphaba Chess > This is just like International Chess except that the queen can't capture > the opponent's pieces and it can't be captured --- it is just used for > blocking. > > I would like to write a program to play this game, but writing that from > scratch is beyond me. > Perhaps I could find a public-domain open-source chess program and modify > it to use my rules. I would have to change the legal-move code to eliminate > captures by the queen or captures of the queen. > Other than that, the program should work fine. Check-mate is still the > goal. The queen is still worth 9 points, but that is irrelevant, so you > might as well say that it is worth 0 points. > I would not expect the point values for the other pieces to change --- > they might though --- this would have to be determined by experimentation > (by stronger players than myself). > > I would prefer to do this in Go as I'm learning Go and this would be a > good learning exercise. > If there are no such programs available in Go however, then I could use > another language --- I know C, C++ and Pascal, but not very well, and I > don't like them much. > My background is in Forth (I've done that professionally), but ANS-Forth > killed Forth in 1994, so nobody really uses Forth anymore. > > thanks for any links --- Hugh > > My ultimate goal with Go is to write a program to "understand" the Ido > language, at least insomuch as generating a grammar diagram for a sentence > and determining if the sentence is grammatical. > It could go from there to generating an English or Spanish translation. I > have a lot to learn about Go before I tackle such a program however. > > Does Go run on smart-phones? I have only heard of Java and Objective-C > being used. I have no interest in learning Java, and not much interest in > Objective-C. > > This program lends itself well to parallel processing. The meaning and > part-of-speech (POS) of each word in an Ido sentence is > context-insensitive, so the words can be analyzed in parallel. > I have designed a multi-core Forth processor that can be built into an > FPGA --- that is what I would like to use --- build a handheld device to do > the translation. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "golang-nuts" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to golang-nuts+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
