Animation of Engine Moves

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Because it is hard to print all information from the UCI engine on the phone screen, I am toying with a feature where the current move considered by the UCI engine is shown graphically. Below is a short demo of this feature. Let me know what you think!

Comments

Anonymous said…
It's great!
August 26, 2010 at 9:22 AM
Elies Bik said…
This is so cool! The animation did not play on the Droid X, but worked fine on a laptop in Chrome. Is this in real time?
August 27, 2010 at 7:39 AM
MAXAITA said…
You can do the larger picture, but you take the whole screen and small screens that is more difficult to select the parts correctly.

Good program I congratulate you, grace
August 29, 2010 at 1:40 PM
Anonymous said…
showing the possible positions of a pc move would be better by just hiliting the square(s) that are legal and available. The arrow thing seems to be too distracting
August 30, 2010 at 3:51 PM
Aart Bik said…
The "move coach" of chess for Android shows all possible destination squares for a selected piece (see http://www.aartbik.com/MISC/android.html for a screenshot). The prototype feature shown in this clip, however, shows the move currently considered by the internal engine while doing an iterative deepening alpha-beta pruning search.
August 30, 2010 at 5:10 PM
Anonymous said…
I don't know if you had a look at Stockfish for Android yet. That author has implemented this cleverly with arrows, and arrows with higher transparency for multiple plies. Pretty cool.

I don't think there is a patent for this so please consider displaying multiple plies for both sides, with varying degrees of transparency.

Btw, are you working on "timed" games (ie. 5min/side (Blitz))? (Sorry if you've already mentioned it on this blog somewhere..)
September 2, 2010 at 1:26 PM
Jay said…
looks great!
September 9, 2010 at 11:14 AM
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