[Haskell-cafe] Re: [Haskell] Haskell Chess

2007-03-19 Thread Steffen Mazanek
Hello again, first of all, thank you Don for your help in making hsChess accessible. I have to have a look at darcs and cabal first :-) I have added some more content and a discussion page to the wiki, please contribute your thoughts. Furthermore I added a link to the german project and task

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: [Haskell] Haskell Chess

2007-03-19 Thread Maxime Henrion
Steffen Mazanek wrote: Hello again, first of all, thank you Don for your help in making hsChess accessible. I have to have a look at darcs and cabal first :-) I have added some more content and a discussion page to the wiki, please contribute your thoughts. Furthermore I added a link

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: [Haskell] Haskell Chess

2007-03-19 Thread Duncan Coutts
On Mon, 2007-03-19 at 12:14 +0100, Maxime Henrion wrote: I stepped onto your mail and found it particularly interesting since I'm currently writing a chess client in Haskell, using GTK+, glade and the nice Cairo library :-). It is called LambdaChess! Cool! When you have something you want to

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: [Haskell] Haskell Chess

2007-03-19 Thread Andrew Wagner
Steffen, I've done some chess AI programming in the past, so I'd be happy to help with this project. I have some pretty fundamental design suggestions that I'll write up for the wiki page. Maxime, Handling different chess engines isn't hard. chess engine communication is pretty standardized -

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: [Haskell] Haskell Chess

2007-03-19 Thread Maxime Henrion
Andrew Wagner wrote: Steffen, I've done some chess AI programming in the past, so I'd be happy to help with this project. I have some pretty fundamental design suggestions that I'll write up for the wiki page. Maxime, Handling different chess engines isn't hard. chess engine communication

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: [Haskell] Haskell Chess

2007-03-19 Thread Andrew Wagner
Sounds great! I can add patches for ICC, as long as your chess-server code is flexible enough to allow for multiple possible servers. I can also try to do some testing under windows. I think for this to be popular, it will need to work there. As for playing on FICS through telnet...wow, you're a

[Haskell-cafe] Re: [Haskell] Haskell Chess

2007-03-19 Thread Andrew Wagner
Andrzej, I'd love to hear some of your thoughts on these things. I agree with you about brute-force not being the best approach in haskell (or maybe at all). I think we should switch to haskell-cafe, since that's where much of this discussion has gone, and that's more for extended discussions

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: [Haskell] Haskell Chess

2007-03-19 Thread Andrzej Jaworski
Hi Andrew, and thank you for invitation. Well, what can I say. I am glad that the wise game can spark spirit of cooperation here. Perhaps it is time for Mr. Haskell to leave stale university rooms and go out for beer:-) On my part I can promise to watch the project and perhaps, architecture

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: [Haskell] Haskell Chess

2007-03-19 Thread Duncan Coutts
On Mon, 2007-03-19 at 14:27 +0100, Maxime Henrion wrote: As for the portability of the my graphics code, I can just say it's GTK+, using Glade XML files, Cairo and SVG on top of Cairo. All of this is supposed to work fine on Windows, if that's what you were asking. I'm not sure about OS X

[Haskell-cafe] Re: [Haskell] Haskell Chess

2007-03-18 Thread Donald Bruce Stewart
smazanek: Hello again, I got a lot of interesting and useful comments on my posting about Haskell Chess. Somebody suggested using the program for benchmarks. Several people asked me to open the program for contributions. And others were just interested in the exercises. It is probably