So, who's down?

I vote we come up with the best chess AI we can code and see who's ai wins in a tournament among the other ais.

Tim Hartnell's The Giant Book Of Computer Games.

Plays awful but it's BASIC basic code and 381 lines only (including comment lines and such). It is easy understandable and can be improved easily (I think).

I'll give it a try then :-)

I have some C client server code, with a basic network_message encapsulation which allow you to make network message of int/double/char* collections.

The calls can be threaded but it's not an obligation.

If it's fitting, then it's pure C and free of course.

I would gladly provide the source and examples, even binaries if it's under debian stable or windows.

Not tested but it should work on android too (/rent)

Would be fun to try but I'm pretty busy at the moment. What's the deadline?

in what Lag Pithon?

rmbeer you should make a private repository and then allow Gullradriel and I to be contributors do you have a GitHub account?

bugsquasher https://bitbucket.org/bugsquasher/

I could not answer before but here we go, the 32 and 64 bit windows example

Link to the example source code. You can scroll back to see the other files if needed.

I may have some times tomorrow to get out a simpler example and a little project.

I think anyone can create an account / git on framagit.org, where I'm actually hosted.

Edit: I'll look at the other things you said after a night of good sleep :-)

We need to actually see your server code before we decide if we're going to use it.

There will have to be a time limit. We can't give unlimited CPU out and expect the games to finish anytime soon.

The competition won't start for several weeks/months. We have plenty of time to iron out the details.

There should be a ranking or elimination round before the competition, so we can make a better match up for the actual competition.

The clients should have to follow a certain API to enforce rules, legal moves, time limits, and prevent cheating.

How long should the competition last? 48 hours? 72 hours?

amarillion, you were probably expecting this, but would TINS be available to host the competition?

Oh, and one last thing, I want to call the program CHAI, for Chess Hack Artificial Intelligence.

Can you publish your server protocol?

Your client didn't work and it isn't yet compatible with an ai player unless I'm mistaken.

Gully I was speaking to RM beer he has a server a chess server setup.

I haven't had the chance to look at your code yet but I will promise.

I looked briefly at your protocol we would have to write a client or at least a basic client so that everyone could derive their own from it.

I don't currently have a working computer that I can work on so I can't really look at any code right now but I'll try when I get home.

Edit
In all reality, the user would only need to write one function.

All processing would be done on the server, so as to keep it fair, and to give equal time to each process.

typedef MOVE(*MakeAMoveFunc)(const BOARD& b , unsigned int turn_num , bool am_i_black);

Then all the user would have to do is supply a function pointer. We could write the rest of the client ourself.