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License: PHP License 3.01

Description

The logic of handling a chessboard and parsing standard
FEN (Forsyth-Edwards Notation) for describing a position as well as SAN
(Standard Algebraic Notation) for describing individual moves is handled. This
class can be used as a backend driver for playing chess, or for validating
and/or creating PGN files using the File_ChessPGN package (when it is completed).

Documentation

Manual

Maintainers

• Greg Beaver (cellog) — lead, active

Dependencies

Required

• PHP (>= 4.2.0)
• PEAR Installer (>= 1.4.3)

Releases

• 1.0.1 (stable, 2007-06-17)
  Release notes

  License: PHP License 3.01

  * fix Bug #10912: gxh8Q recognized as invalid

• 1.0.0 (stable, 2007-01-28)
  Release notes

  License: PHP License 3.01

  * fix Bug #10912: gxh8Q recognized as invalid

• 1.0.0RC1 (beta, 2006-11-17)
  Release notes

  License: PHP License 3.01

  fix bugs in Crazyhouse discovered in unit testing

• 0.9.1 (alpha, 2006-11-16)
  Release notes

  License: PHP License

  fix Bug #7565: should be checkmate but isnt showing as such
  convert all unit tests to .phpt format
  allow placement move to interpose in a check for Crazyhouse variant

• 0.9.0 (alpha, 2005-03-11)
  Release notes

  License: PHP License

  Add factory method, return state from startTransaction

• 0.8.1 (alpha, 2004-07-11)
  Release notes

  License: PHP License

  Fix 2 bugs: draw is not allowed except by stalemate, and pawn placement on the
  first or last ranks is not allowed (#1838, #1839)

• 0.8.0 (alpha, 2004-07-10)
  Release notes

  License: PHP License

  Add "Crazyhouse variant"

• 0.7.0 (alpha, 2004-04-09)
  Release notes

  License: PHP License

  PHP 5 compatibility

  - Castling is now possible by moving the king to the destination square

• 0.6alpha (alpha, 2003-12-28)
  Release notes

  License: PHP License

  bugfix release

  - fixed #158: total screwup in example if SAN entered in FEN box

• 0.5alpha (alpha, 2003-10-26)
  Release notes

  License: PHP License

  Added new module for Loser's chess (ICC wild 16)

  - added gameOver() method, returns color of winner, or D for draw, or false

• 0.3 (alpha, 2003-10-13)
  Release notes

  License: PHP License

  Fixed a few bugs:

  - example works in Mozilla now
  - promotion was endless loop in example
  - promotion didn't change the pawn to the promoted piece

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