HIARCS Chess Forums

Summary The forum now has three enhancements for chess, which can be invoked by enclosing a text in 'BBcode tags' (i.e. a tag name enclosed in square brackets): fen tags - when these are put around a FEN position description, a diagram for that position will appear in your posting. The diagram gene...

And, finally, the pgn4web game viewer works too. [Event "?"] [Site "?"] [Date "2021.07.03"] [Round "?"] [White "����"] [Black "SxRandom"] [Result "0-1"] [ECO "B00"] [GameDuration "00:09:30"] [GameEndTime "...

Interactive Diagrams now also work. I hope to get to the PGN viewer tonight. files=12 ranks=12 promoZone=2 maxPromote=1 promoChoice=QNBRWC graphicsType=png startShade=#FF80FF symmetry=mirror useMarkers=1 Pawn::fceFifmnDifmnHfmW::a3-l3 hole::::b1-k1,a2,a3,a4,a5,a6,l2,l3,l4,l5,l6 Knight:N:::d2,i2 Wiza...

Should be done now. (In the Lobby and Tournament forum sections. I don't know whether diagrams can be expected in other sections.)

Well, I don't know how it worked before. The way it works now is that you have to surround the FEN with [ fen] [/fen] tags, and that there is a button to do that on a selected text. That the FENs in postings from before the upgrade were not converted to diagrams should have been solved now, in the L...

It is now possible to post position diagrams, by writing the FEN in your posting surrounded by 'fen' BBcode tags (for which there is a button in the entry form). Like



PGN and live diagrams is still being worked on.

This is a test to see if FEN tags work. r3k2r/p1ppqpb1/bn2pnp1/3PN3/1p2P3/2N2Q1p/PPPBBPPP/R3K2R w KQkq - [Edit] Apparently not; the problem is that the JavaScript to generate them is fetched from my own website, which is http rather than https, so the browser security blocks the access. The file wil...

That should be no problem. The GUI tells to a Chess engine which side it is playing for.

I built electronic chessboard using arduino and i am having trouble with sending moves to chess GUI. Are there any toturials or someone could tell me how to do it? Chess GUIs are designed to interact with chess engines. So the usual way to handle this is to disguise the driver program for your boar...

Note that Polyglot already does use a hard-coded ini file: polyglot.ini in the current directory. Only when its command line specifies another filename, or the option -noini, it would be prevented from using ./polyglot.ini . So the commonly used solution to this problem is to create a separate folde...

I wonder what it would take to get Stockfish to enter? It would take a flexible interpretation of the ICGA rules, in combination with someone who contributed to the code to enter it. The problem in the case of Stockfish is that those recognized as 'principal authors' have a second agenda to destroy...

I prepared a binary installer for WinBoard 4.8.0. I haven't announced it at WB forum yet, but will update the download pages there shortly. The installer is already downloadable from http://hgm.nubati.net/WinBoard-4.8.0.exe . Main new features that would benefit Chess users are: * tablebase hits, se...

My apologies if I am posting in the wrong forum section, (I am not a HIARCS customer), but I want to address the developers of HIARCS, and this seems the best place. I am lobbying to introduce a standard for facilitating installing engines, in particular so that it would be possible for the GUIs to ...

Unfortunately that sample code there didn't compile for me, ... I admit I did not test it. This one compiles for me on Linux with gcc. (It is C, not C++). I get a warning on get_current_dir_name(), though, like I did not #include the right header to declare it. The manual says it should be in unist...

If you would let your wrapper read the string it feeds to system() from a file with a fixed name (say wrapper.ini) in the current directory, people could use it without comiling anything. They would only have to prepare an ini file with the wine command in it. Of course you could have the wrapper al...