Thanks Mokurai, I had no idea chess engines came in such small packages. Interesting that shogi (Japanese chess) "has a higher branching factor than other chess variants" because taken pieces can be re-taken and re-deployed. But if an ordinary chess game can be put on the XO with a small chess engine, that would be great.
Sounds like a good project to suggest to some of the university students that are working on activities now (I certainly don't have the programming skills to do it myself) but, as a teacher, I'm sure there would be many students who would thrive at learning and playing chess, first against a chess engine in the XO to learn how to play, then against other students. Kevin Kirton > There are chess engines in a wide range of sizes and competences. The > gnuchess 6.0 tarball is 561K. It can beat most amateur players handily, > which is quite sufficient for teaching the rudiments of the game, and > rather more. > > http://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/chess/ _______________________________________________ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) [email protected] http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
