A year ago I got myself addicted to Yahoo! online chess. I started out really sucking, but through a lot of practice I managed to move up to not so good. A big part of my amazing rise in ability was a java program I wrote which would let me review my previous games using the game history that Yahoo will email to you after the games.
A friend of mine Laura recently took up chess, and I just dusted off this old proggie to review one of her first winning matches. Since I had it up, I decided to package it a little nicer and release it as GPL open source code. Here it is if you're interested: ChessY!
didn't we have a game scheduled? I really suck, but I'm up for learning...
Posted by: Mie | 2003.02.14 at 05:01 AM
*awed look* wow. cool prog. You are the man!
Posted by: Laura | 2003.02.14 at 11:13 PM
Mie, yeah we need to set up a way to play online. I guess we should use Yahoo, but my login quit working, I need to create a new one. I could play you too Laura...
Posted by: Dav | 2003.02.15 at 02:36 PM
For future chess game playing reference, my yahoo id is harual.
Posted by: Laura | 2003.02.16 at 04:47 PM
Ummm. your chess program. can i ask for a version 1.1? The screen/gameplay is shown backwards. I was reviewing a game, and it was "opposite" of what had been played. (for example, my move Ng1-f3 was shown on the left side of the screen instead of the right.) Hmm, now that I look at the screen shot, i see that the board is the wrong way around - it has a dark square at the right corner, instead of a white one. can you mirror image it?
Posted by: Laura | 2003.02.18 at 12:31 PM
Oops. Damn, I never noticed that. OK, well it's fixed and I added some new features too.
Posted by: Dav | 2003.02.18 at 03:19 PM