By rui, on June 18th, 2010
Chess engine development is one of the most brain-crushing activities I’ve been involved on the last years. Last nigths I was working again on my Carballo Chess Engine with some advances.
First of all I decided to leave Negamax and go with Principal Variation Search (PVS). Also decided to implement separate methods for root . . . → Read More: Tales of a chess engine developer
By rui, on June 2nd, 2010
Jim Ablett has published a packaged executable for my Carballo chess engine. He also made a pretty logo for it, shown here. Check his page to download executables for Carballo and a lot of other chess engines: Jim Ablett’s Winboard Chess Page. Thanks Jim for your great . . . → Read More: Jim Ablett’s Carballo packaging
By rui, on March 27th, 2010
Mañá vou facer unha presentación de Android e organizar un pequeno workshop na SobrosoParty (http://www.sobrosoparty.es). Tamén falarei do meu novo proxecto Mobialia e das aplicacións para Android que teño feitas. A presentación de mañá se pode descargar no seguinte enlace:
android_sobrosoparty.pdf
By rui, on January 30th, 2010
The new version 2.0 adds the support to play online on freechess.org (FICS). You can play against people all around the world and compare your chess knowledge. Thousands of hours of entertainment with this new version.
Also has many improvements on the interface and gameplay, which makes Mobialia Chess 2.0 the best chess app . . . → Read More: Mobialia Chess for Android
By rui, on December 21st, 2009
Lukas Laag has written me about his new GUI for the Carballo Chess Engine using the Google Web Toolkit (GWT) and his SVG Graphics Library for GWT, libgwtsvg.
GWT is provided from Google to develop applications in Javascript programming in Java. It conterts the Java code to Javascript, and the application is run on . . . → Read More: Great GWT UI for Carballo Chess Engine
By rui, on December 13th, 2009
Recently, navigating the Debian repositories I found Rakarrack, an Open Source Linux program to simulate various guitar effects in real time. This sound effects are often done with expensive physical sound processors, but this application makes it all with only one cheap computer (well, I suppose that the quality will rely a lot on . . . → Read More: Rakarrak: The Linux Guitar Effects Processor
By rui, on December 3rd, 2009
Ante a inclusión no anteproxecto de lei sobre a economía sostible das modificacións lexislativas que afectan o libre exercicio das liberdades de expresión, de información e o dereito de acceso á cultura a través de Internet, os xornalistas, blogueiros, usuarios, profesionais e creadores de Internet manifestamos a nosa firme oposición ao proxecto, e declaramos . . . → Read More: Manifesto: Na defensa dos dereitos fundamentais en Internet
By rui, on December 1st, 2009
Na úlima Noite Galega das Telecomunicacións (a cena anual do colexio de enxeñeiros de telecomunicación) tiven a sorte de coñecer a Xosé María Fernández Pazos, director da Revista Codigo Cero e do programa da Radio Galega Banda Ancha. Por certo, a última hora, a directiva do colexio tomou a esperpéntica decisión de non reparti-los . . . → Read More: Programa Banda Ancha da Radio Galega
By rui, on November 21st, 2009
At last, the first “stable” release of my chess engine. The main new features are:
Static Exchange Evaluator (SEE): the biggest change, affects move ordering introducing more move generation phases, also affects LMR, etc. New “experimental” evaluation function, with King Safety, X-Ray attacks and improved mobility Recapture extension, also changed a lot the extension . . . → Read More: Carballo Chess Engine 0.3
By rui, on October 4th, 2009
I’ve been using Opera Mini 4 for 1 year and I prefer it over the Symbian integrated browser because is faster, simpler and smaller. Now Opera announced the avaiability of an Opera Mini 5 Beta. The main new features are:
- Speed Dial with captures of the pages, like in the desktop version. I . . . → Read More: Opera Mini 5
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