NXC: autonomous chess program + chess robot for NXT

[HaWe]

the video !!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UHxfFxfR ... e=youtu.be




maybe blocked because of the soundtrack -
so - very boring, as a silent movie - look at this:

[mattallen37]

Wow, that's cool!

What building platform did you use?

You should do a time-lapse video of it playing a complete game autonomously!

[HaWe]

Thanks, matt!^^

It's Fischertechnik combined with Lego Mindstorms and Lego Technic!

(filming a whole game is one of my nxt projects - probably!)^^

[pepijndevos]

How did you resolve the recursive aspect? Just manual tail-call-loop-unrolling-pointer-avoidance?

[HaWe]

try to read the source! ;)
http://www.mindstormsforum.de/viewtopic ... 046#p57269

[pepijndevos]

I did, seems like manual tail-call-loop-unrolling-pointer-avoidance to me, but it's quite a big piece of code. It seems you have separate functions for the 3 layers, which contain huge loops and branches.

[HaWe]

yes, I was unsure what you meant by

tail-call-loop-unrolling-pointer-avoidance

- if it was meant seriously or if it was supposed to be a joke,
but because for some inside-functional goto cmds it was easier to write seperated functions - with the additional benefit that I could cut off some parts of the code (e.g. for a quiscience search) or for different scores (e.g. for a check threat) in deeper iteration levels. That's why having to write a FIFO stack for just 1 universal move generator function appeared to me to be much more effort to do.

[mightor]

Doc,

Looks pretty fantastic Btw, if you want to avoid sound track issues, you can download and use a lot of music from this site: http://www.jamendo.com/en/ for free, as long as you adhere to the license the music is distributed under. I use this quite a lot. Mine is usually more electronic music, but I am sure there's music of the rock-persuasion, too.

- Xander

[HaWe]

thx for the music link -
is there a kind of overview list to quickly listen to several tracks?

[mightor]

No idea, I usually pick one at random, if I like it, I use it, if not, I randomly pick another

- Xander