Editorial Note: I originally wrote this post for the Infragistics blog. Check out the original here, at their site. If you like this post, please give them some love over there and go check out the original and some of the other posts. Writing automated tests is sort of like the kale of the software…
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…
