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Chess in VB.Net

Posted by Russell Lambert in Articles | Games in VB.NET on October 26, 2009

The source available with this article shows a fully functioning chess engine in VB.NET with all sound search techniques.

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DotNetChess.zip

Reader Level: Intermediate

Introduction:

VBDotNet Chess is a chess engine written in...VB.NET, of course!

Features:

Multi threaded to take full advantage of multi-core machines
Full Negamax search, up to 6 ply realistic on a quad core, defaults to 4
Alpha/Beta pruning
Null move culling (pioneered by the Fritz team)
Quiescent search, featuring check extensions
Iterative deepening
Aspiration windows
Evaluation using piece square tables

All in VB.NET. Full source available.

Get the source from the attachment here. I have started a full guide to chess engine programming in VB.NET on my site and will update frequently. Hopefully the source is well commented though and it should be informative even without further writings.

Chess in VB.Net

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In that part of the code would be, I am spending it to poo, alone it is necessary to put the level of game, easy, average and difficult

Posted by Kevin Funez on Mar 05, 2011

thanks

Posted by Jose on Jul 03, 2010

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Chess in VB.Net

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