Parts of the Project

• Main Program Written! (main.clu)
  • Calls the chess_board, user_interface, and computer_player data structures to implement the program.
  • Compiled & tested, more or less
• chess_board data structure
  • Specifications written
  • Implemented
  • compiled & tested (but not rigorously)
• user_interface data structure
  • Specifications written
  • First-shot interface implemented and tested!
  • Black-box test code written
• Computer Strategy
  • Specifications written for both computer_player and static_evaluator
  • first-shot static_evaluator implemented & compiled
  • computer_player implemented & compiled but not tested
• General Utilities
  • Specifications for several routines written
  • All of these routines were implemented
  • All routines compiled and tested (but not rigorously)

To Do

• test chess_board data structure more rigorously
  • check file-input (break off into separate module)
• Modify chess_board and main.clu to allow "teleportation"
• write next-generation user interface
• finish implementing computer_player data structure (test!)
  • I talked to our TA, and we don't have to use the machine_player data structures internally to our program
  • To participate in the tournament, we will have to implement that data structure; we can just implement it as a wrapper around our internal one
• find optimal static evaluator (via genetic algorithms)
• Finish writing main-program and test
• Testing

Recent Changes

• 4/17:
  • program updated to include first problem set specifications changes
  • finished implementing chess_board
  • main program does timing
  Here is our April 25th progress report.