AJAX Magazine: First implementation of a chess engine in JavaScript : Mobile Edition

Published on 2006-04-14 19:07:46

Today Morfik released version 0.4 of the Morfik Chess application. This version uses a chess engine developed with WebOS AppsBuilder using Object Pascal and which is compiled into pure JavaScript and HTML so that it can run in the browser. It is able to compute at least 2 moves deep. This is probably the world’s first implementation of a chess engine in JavaScript.

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This alpha-version Chess game can be played as a single player or a multi-player networked game. If you choose the 'Single Player Game' mode, you will be playing against the world's first JavaScript Chess Engine which is running within your browser. This release sees a couple moves ahead, i.e. this is not (yet) a demonstration of a JavaScript Grandmaster.......

If you choose the 'Multi-Player Game' mode, you will again be playing via an application which is running in your browser, i.e. you initiate the browser chess game and invite your friend to join the game using her/his browser. This game takes place without utilizing a central server.

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