This episode was relatively short and sweet. Things actually went well, which is surprising to me somehow, particularly given the length of time between episodes. In this episode I used previously implemented code to stop the king from being able to move into check. I’m not positive, but off the top, this might be the…
In this episode, I took the newly minted threat evaluator and used it to prevent castling through check. The most interesting thing to note in this episode, however, aside from continued progress toward the final product, was how some earlier sub-optimal architectural shortcuts came back to bite us (if only temporarily). At this point, we’re…
Once again, it’s been a while since the last episode in the series. This time the culprit has been a relocation for the remainder of the winter, which meant I was dealing with moving-like logistics. However I’m holed up now in the south, where I’ll spend the winter working on my book, working remotely, and…
In this episode of the Chess TDD series, I start working on implementing check by implementing the more general concept of threatened pieces.
In this episode, it seems I finally got the hang of castling. It’s been a relatively long journey with it, but I can now successfully detect castling situations that involve any combination of rook/king prior movement, as well as interceding pieces. The only thing left to go is the relative edge case of a castling…
