by Roger Z (2 Submissions)
Category: Games
Compatability: VB 6.0
Difficulty: Advanced
Originally Published: Thu 22nd December 2016
Date Added: Tue 9th February 2021
Rating: (1 Votes)
ChessBrainVB V3 ============== Chess engine with GUI for EXCEL / WORD VBA - plus edition for winboard with win32 engine There are two ways to use this chess engine: 1. Use ExcelChessBrainX.xlsm with EXCEL or WordChessBrainX.docm with WORD (full install needed, viewers are not working) to play games using the GUI implemented in VBA forms. Files needed: ChessBrainVB.ini for settings, ChessBrainVB_Book.opn, ChessBrainVB_Book.opi for opening book. Playing strength 2200 ELO (CCRL 40/4 conditions, see https://www.computerchess.org.uk/ccrl/404/rating_list_all.html) Visual Basic for Applications is used for the chess engine. This pseudo code is not compiled and 15 times slower than the compiled VB6 EXE for winboard: calculates about 10.000 moves per second. 2. Use a free chess GUI like ARENA , add ChessBrainVB.exe as winboard engine and play games.(https://www.playwitharena.com) Files needed: ChessBrainVB.ini for settings, ChessBrainVB_Book.opn, ChessBrainVB_Book.opi for opening book. Playing strength 2750 ELO (CCRL 40/4 conditions, see https://www.computerchess.org.uk/ccrl/404/rating_list_all.html) Compiled with Visual Basic 6: calculates about 150.000 moves per second. Download-Link: https://github.com/RZulu54/ChessBrainVB/releases