Try the following links:
1. http://www.csharphelp.com/archives/archive246.html
gui, no engine, but understands the rules of chess. source included.

2. http://www.albert.nu/programs/sharpchess/main.htm
#Chess, a real winboard-compatible chess engine. no gui. source included.

I plan to write my own GUI, and eventully my own chess engine in VB.NET.
Currently, I'm self-learning VB.NET from a book (Deitel's Visual Basic.NET
How to Program) and am writing a program to 'solve' a chess variant called
the Pawn Game.

Ed

"grs" wrote in message
news
Would like to obtain a c# chess program that:
1. Has GUI board
2. Has simple chess engine - not rated high
3. Source is available

Somthing along the lines of Karrigen (spelling ?) c engine. Just would
like
to
learn to program chess from a simple start.

Would you know of anything in Visual Basic.Net?

TIA,

Paolo


"Ed Seid" wrote in message
k.net...
Try the following links:
1. http://www.csharphelp.com/archives/archive246.html
gui, no engine, but understands the rules of chess. source included.

2. http://www.albert.nu/programs/sharpchess/main.htm
#Chess, a real winboard-compatible chess engine. no gui. source
included.

I plan to write my own GUI, and eventully my own chess engine in VB.NET.
Currently, I'm self-learning VB.NET from a book (Deitel's Visual Basic.NET
How to Program) and am writing a program to 'solve' a chess variant called
the Pawn Game.

Ed

"grs" wrote in message
news
Would like to obtain a c# chess program that:
1. Has GUI board
2. Has simple chess engine - not rated high
3. Source is available

Somthing along the lines of Karrigen (spelling ?) c engine. Just would
like
to
learn to program chess from a simple start.

AFAIK, there are no chess programs written in VB.NET yet. There are several
Basic programs out there, and a few have source available. The problem for
me is that most of the source is non-English.

If you can decipher Italian, take a look at LarsenVB, found at
http://digilander.libero.it/larsenvb/ It's written in VB6 and is one of the
stronger Basic chess programs.
If you can read Spanish, there's MigoyaChess, found at
http://www.geocities.com/migoyasoft/
Finally, I did find a source that's written in English! Minimax can be
found at http://www.zeta.org.au/~tommy/ That site is also the home for Deep
BASIC (QuickBasic 4.5) and Kanguruh (Power Basic), but only the executables
are available for those.

After I finish playing with my 'Pawn Game' program, I'll start toying with
the creation of a chess gui in VB.NET. But for now, I'm trying to optimize
the Pawn Game code for maximal performance. I'm able to solve the 6 vs 6
pawn game in about 1 hour, but I'd like to be able to able to solve the full
8 vs 8 pawn game before moving on to other challenges. Hopefully, I'll be
able to do this with the help of transposition tables, which is the next
step. The Pawn Game has been an instructional exercise for me, in
preparation for programming a full-featured chess engine someday.

Hope that helps.

"PaoloTCS" wrote in message
. net...
Would you know of anything in Visual Basic.Net?

Paolo


"Ed Seid" wrote in message
k.net...
Try the following links:
1. http://www.csharphelp.com/archives/archive246.html
gui, no engine, but understands the rules of chess. source included.

2. http://www.albert.nu/programs/sharpchess/main.htm
#Chess, a real winboard-compatible chess engine. no gui. source
included.

I plan to write my own GUI, and eventully my own chess engine in VB.NET.
Currently, I'm self-learning VB.NET from a book (Deitel's Visual
Basic.NET
How to Program) and am writing a program to 'solve' a chess variant
called
the Pawn Game.

Ed

"grs" wrote in message
news
Would like to obtain a c# chess program that:
1. Has GUI board
2. Has simple chess engine - not rated high
3. Source is available

Somthing along the lines of Karrigen (spelling ?) c engine. Just would
like
to
learn to program chess from a simple start.