HellChess user guide TABLE OF CONTENTS
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1. HellChess user guide Revision Date Softcopy 3 Jan 2005 3 USING HELLCHESS The way to use HellChess is dependent on the target platform This manual is divided into three different parts depending on the targetted platform e Part 1 Windows Linux and Amiga manual e Part2 PocketPC manual e Part 3 Gameboy Advanced manual 3 1 USING HELLCHESS ON EITHER WINDOWS LINUX OR AMIGA 3 1 1 Description of the main screen After the HellChess animation the following screen is visible HellChess 1 1 0 0 Edit board Settinos ts ae ar 1 Edit board le 8 Black pieces 2 Settings jie 3 Quit HA Aea Yen inkriouns a ORPA ng 4 White player he i SN Ze 5 Black player 5 Black player 6 White pieces 7 CPU Thinker 8 Move browser 9 Chat window 10 Move window Edit board Clicking this item will swap the screen to the board setup for the selected gametype Settings Clicking this item will swap the screen to the settings menu Here one can select the gametype TCP IP connection select a lesson and change the CPU difficulty 3 Quit Clicking this will quit the program 4 White player Indicates whether the white player is required to play a move 5 Black player Indicates wheter the black player is required to play a move 6 White pieces Here the white pieces are shown 7 8 9 1 CPU Thinker Clicking this item will force the CPU to play Black pieces Here the black pieces are shown Cha2. a i fs j Fl a fei fs j Fl a fei Working on the interface took about 4 months in total During this time we received a PocketPC and a Gameboy Advanced so we immediately decided to port HellChess to these platforms too By now we supported Windows Linux Amiga PocketPC and the Gameboy Advanced Sadly our Palm device broke down so we couldn t port HellChess to the Palm And finally on the 20 of August we released HellChess v1 0 which was a great success lt CE EEE aa EE n a E N as 3 a r oes a E m ae BD aa a be E E x m a E mi gt A Smm m E E m E A month before Christmas 2004 we came up with an idea to make up a special version for Xmas and newyear 2005 This also became a test to see if the chess search engine could easily be changed to different game rules We decided to try letting it play connect4 This turned out to be very easy to do This of course led to another game called Othello which was also quite easy to merge into the chess engine Possibly we will add more gametypes when we get around to it in the future Download the latest version at http hellhound nl hc 1 2 SOME STATISTICS After the first successful release HellChess was downloaded about 30 000 times in one month On average the CPU hits about 350 000 nodes a second 1 GHz Pentium 91 of all downloads are for the Windows platform Most emails received were about the Amiga version Complimantary emails a
3. Title Y HellChess user guide Revision Date Softcopy 3 Jan 2005 HellChess user guide TABLE OF CONTENTS DIN OC ON iia wana cwts cosbannpinsecnnscannacneiancecaecancacatacneandpasnvanssannacenncavansniabacapacambennauanneanocinaens 2 1 1 IPTC Ss HS TORY cage eccacces eoeindeabacance esesmaunesancepnes E R 2 l2 OME TATT er E E E 3 2 INSTALLING HELLCHESS siccsccrssusi sna iana EE 4 2 1 SUPPORTED PLATFORMS AND REQUIREMENTS ccccsccsscssccsccsccsscscscescessescesccescescescessescessescescessessescessescescessens 4 21 1 Windows installation uninstallation vucucnucuaucueunnenensnuaucusunsenenenenenuaununsnnenensnenununununnenensnanensnanss 4 2 1 2 Linux installation uninstallation X86 vasccsnccnccncnennecneneeneeneeeenee nee Uen OAH EG EAN EAH ESAS EAH EAH EA EATER HEEE EEE 4 2 1 3 Amiga installation uninstallation va saccnccncnuenecnecnenenneenenennee den UAHEDTEA EAE ED HEA EAN EAH ELAS EAH ES TES EAT EAH ESE EE EDS 4 2 1 4 PocketPC installation UPUIPSCANQCION suucacccenenunenscucucusueuenenenenenueunsenenenensnuneaunsnnenenensnunununsnnnnanes 4 2 1 5 Gameboy Advanced installation uninstallation wisscsccucnusnecnecnenennecnenenneenenennesneneanennnsnanennesnanins 4 3 USING He CHESS cravirastscvanaaecentnistersiniasenteiaeasiviaiaa ivi canarivivavavinaeieavinins aAa 5 3 1 USING HELLCHESS ON EITHER WINDOWS LINUX OR AMIGA ccccsccccesssseeeessseceessseecessseeccesseeceessseeceesseeseesaees 5 3 1 1 Description OF the main SCCCN
4. at the moment This is why we decided to let the user control how long the CPU 1s allowed to play a move each time During the animation one can press the start button to skip the intro 3 3 1 Using HellChess mainscreen 1 Undo a move 6 Move cursor Gi F gt GS CS E2 E4 GI GS 9 Start button 10 Select button CPU thinking Shows the CPU thinking process in real time Colour to play Shows if either white or black is required to play Move list Shows the played moves Button A This button is used to play a move or to stop the CPU Button B This button is used to start the CPU algorithm Start button Not used 0 Select button Enter the setup menu by pressing this button a a HellHound Undo a move Played moves can be undone by pressing the L button Redo a move Played moves can be redone by pressing the R button Move cursor The red square is used to select pieces and to move them Revision Date 3 Jan 2005 2 Redo a move 3 CPU thinking 4 Colour to play 5 Move list 7 Button A 8 Button B Page 11 of 16 Title i 4 HellChess user guide Revision Date Softcopy 3 Jan 2005 3 3 2 Using the edit mode 1 Tutorial back i a 2 Tutorial up 3 Colour to play 4 Piece to place 5 Cursor move 6 A Button 8 Start button 7 B Button ARIARI ee BO a C 9 Select button i GAME BOY ADVANCE Tutorial back Press this button to scroll through the tutorials backwards T
5. ay Indicates if white is next to play or not Black to play Indicates if black is next to play or not White setup Available pieces for white Chat window Shows all chat text eee a 3 1 3 1 Setting up a board Revision Date 3 Jan 2005 3 Black setup 5 Black to play On the board setup one can drag pieces into the board displayed Also one can reposition pieces without verification of the gamerules To delete pieces from the board one can drag pieces off the board It is all a matter of dragging pieces around To change the player next to play click on the circle next to the board If one is connected on the network the chat option is still available This is especially useful for tutorials so that one can explain the rules of the game HellHound Page 8 of 16 Title Y HellChess user guide Revision Date Softcopy 3 Jan 2005 3 2 USING HELLCHESS ON A POCKETPC Launching HellChess on a PocketPC can be done using the file explorer Simply go to the installation folder of HellChess and press the HellChess icon A 3 2 1 HellChess main screen Dwu it Sett inas 1 Quit 3 Force CPU 2 Settings menu _ Ahite Black pee tee 5 Redo move 4 Undo move 4 fi cY4 co d 5 p1 f 6 Move history Quit Press here to quit the program If cpu isn t thinking Settings menu Press here to enter the settings menu GO Force the CPU to perform a move Undo move Press here to undo a move Redo
6. memory Due to the different amiga systems available several different executables are provided in the archive as well each optimised for a particular system Special versions are built for the following systems Amiga 68030 AGA and 4 Mb fast memory Doesn t play the animation and no 3D screenswap Amiga 68060 AGA and 8 Mb fast memory Plays the animation and includes 3D screenswapping Amiga 68040 GFX and 8 Mb fast memory Plays the animation and includes 3D screenswapping Amiga PPC GFX and 8 Mb fast memory Plays the animation and includes 3D screenswapping Deleting all the files will uninstall HellChess from your Amiga computer 2 1 4 PocketPC installation uninstallation Running HellChess on a PocketPC requires a device with either an ARM MIPS or SH3 processor Also WindowsCE 2002 should be installed on the device To install the game simply unpack the archive on the target device Note that the executable should not be given a different name otherwise the working folder of HellChess cannot be located by the application Deleting all the files will uninstall HellChess again 2 1 5 Gameboy Advanced installation uninstallation Running HellChess on a Gameboy Advanced GBA requires a flashable cartridge and the required software to write to the cartridge Flashing the ROM file of HellChess to the cartridge installs HellChess on the cartridge Removing the file uninstalls HellChess from the cartridge HellHound Page 4 of 16 Title i 4
7. move Press here to redo a move Move history Shows the move history Of ee a 3 2 1 1 Playing a move To play a move pieces need to be dragged with the pen to their destination If this move is legal HellChess will accept the move 3 2 1 2 Undo a move Pressing the circle with the white pawn will undo the last played move Notice that this will disable the CPU auto play 3 2 1 3 Redo a move Pressing the circle with the black pawn will redo a move 1f it exists HellHound Page 9 of 16 Title i 4 HellChess user guide Revision Date Softcopy 3 Jan 2005 3 2 2 HellChess settings screen 1 Gameboard 2 White control 3 Black control h ei y i i LFA i j f aS fe S Gametype gt E AN i 5 Tutorial 4HH W___ ai Gameboard Press here to enter the gameboard again White control Select if white is to be played by CPU or Human Only one colour can be played by CPU Black control Select if black is to be played by CPU or Human Gametype Select the desired gametype HellChess Othello Connect4 Tutorial If HellChess is the gametype select a tutorial So a HellHound Page 10 of 16 Title i 4 HellChess user guide Softcopy 3 3 USING HELLCHESS ON A GAMEBOY ADVANCED HellChess on the Gameboy Advanced was mainly done to prove the BraatWorst engine can run on anything We never thought it would play the animation properly though but it does The chess algorithm isn t really powerful on a GBA
8. nd bug reports Quickest port was done for the Gameboy Advanced 3 weeks Best HellChess student is Musashi HellHound Page 3 of 16 Title 4 HellChess user guide Revision Date Softcopy 3 Jan 2005 2 INSTALLING HELLCHESS 2 1 SUPPORTED PLATFORMS AND REQUIREMENTS Currently there are a few platforms HellChess can be played on All versions of HellChess can be downloaded from the official HellHound homepage There are also other sites with HellChess mirrors but always make sure you check the official site to download the latest version Depending on your target platform one can obtain a copy of HellChess at http hellhound nl he 2 1 1 Windows installation uninstallation Running HellChess on a Windows machine requires at least Windows 95 or a later version Once the Windows archive has been downloaded the archive can be unpacked anywere on the harddrive No registry will be changed so deleting the files will uninstall HellChess 2 1 2 Linux installation uninstallation x86 Running HellChess on Linux requires the X window system and Xlib v2 x or higher No sourcecode can be obtained so there is no need for a recompile of the project Simply unpack the files somewere on your HD make sure the files have the proper flags set If one deletes all the files HellChess has been uninstalled 2 1 3 Amiga installation uninstallation Running HellChess on an Amiga requires OS 3 x or above with an 68030 processor installed and some fast
9. r When playing online one can chat by entering text and transmit this using the return key 3 1 1 8 Enter the board setup Press the EDIT BOARD text at the top menu bar 3 1 1 9 Enter the game settings Press the settings text at the top menu bar 3 1 1 10 Quit the game Press the Quit text at the top menu bar HellHound Page 6 of 16 Title 4 HellChess user guide Revision Date Softcopy 3 Jan 2005 3 1 2 Description of the settings screen HellChess 1 1 0 0 _GameBoard awit 1 Gameboard Settings E i e pert 4 3 Player name 2 Quit 4 White control 5 Black control 6 CPU level IHU 7 7 TCP IP address 8 TCP IP port 9 TCP IP mode 10 TCP IP control 11 Tutorials te Vang PEE fie Chess 13 Error reports 12 Gametypes 1 Gameboard Click here to return to the gameboard 2 Quit Click here to quit the program 3 Player name Click here to change the player name by keyboard 4 White control Select either human control or CPU control 5 Black control Select either human control or CPU control 6 CPU level Select the seconds the CPU may consider a move 0 unlimited until checkmate is found 7 TCP IP address Setup the IP address a client connection has to connect to 8 TCP IP address Setup the port the server and the client should use for connection 9 TCP IP mode Select either server or client mode Note a client connects to a server 10 TCP IP control Click here
10. ssinivincosnesiawtanveaetessseninaabeinaiealsdevtiniisei bess esbeneresnoeanendionanteitense 5 3 1 2 Description OF the Settings SCLCCM ciscsennennennennennnnnennennnnnennennennesnenesnennennesnesnesnesnesnasnesnasnassasss 7 31 3 Description of the board Setup SCCCN ssscscceccnecnecnennensennennensensessesesnessessessesnessesessessesnessassenss 8 3 2 U SNG HELLCHESS ONA POCKETPC oeron e aii 9 Jad PICUNCHOSS TAUN SS OC Viri AEAEE AE EEEE EET EENE EEEIEE AITTE 9 3 2 2 HellChess settings SCl nN sssssssssssnsnsnnsnononononenonnnennnsnanenannnnnansnnnsnsrsnsnsrsrsnnnnnnnnenenenenenenanane 10 e USING HELLCHESS ON A GAMEBOY ADVANCED ccccccccesssssececeeeeaesesseccceeesaeesseeeeceessaausseececeesauueaseeeeeeeeeagees 1 3 3 1 USING HellChess IGIISCICON sccainsisctais scninainlueccniunsiniennunsinncssscdaivntrieaelsmunieniuidatidaiscauantedeseninnstedesansuate 11 Dele USG THE COIL OGG rriari a aT aa vacate what en a tance ci ae eee 12 HellHound Page of 16 Title Y HellChess user guide Revision Date Softcopy 3 Jan 2005 1 INTRODUCTION HellChess is a multiple platform chess program capable of playing chess othello and connect4 HellChess is the third successfully released product of HellHound Other products are HellShot Artificial Intelligence simulator and BruceLee Only available for the Amiga 1 1 HELLCHESS HISTORY c C Documents and Seti The HellChess project was started in February 2001 but was cancelled in May 2001 d
11. t window The chat can be seen here 0 Move window Here a history of the moves played can be seen also moves can be undone redone HellHound Page 5 of 16 Title 4 HellChess user guide Revision Date Softcopy 3 Jan 2005 3 1 1 1 Playing a move If one wants to play a move simply drag a piece to its destination using the mouse and the left button New in HellChess are two other games that don t require moving a piece but placing a piece To place a piece simply click on the destination field and a piece shall be placed there 3 1 1 2 Force a CPU move Next to the left bottom side of the chessboard a small thinker icon can be seen Click on this icon to let the CPU perform a move Pressing SPACEBAR will stop the CPU and let him play the move Note that pressing space when the CPU is on auto play will cancel the auto play Selected in the settings menu 3 1 1 3 Undo a move In the move history field some small icons can be seen lt lt lt gt gt gt Press the lt icon to undo a move notice this will disable any selected CPU auto play 3 1 1 4 Redo a move Press the gt icon in the history field notice this will disable any selected CPU auto play 3 1 1 5 Rewind a game Press the lt lt icon in the history field notice this will disable any selected CPU auto play 3 1 1 6 Forward a game Press the gt gt icon in the history field notice this will disable any selected CPU auto play 3 1 1 7 Chat to the other playe
12. to setup a connection 11 Tutorials Click here if one wants to restart the game or select a tutorial Chess only 12 Gametypes Clicking one of these will change the gametype to either Chess Othello or Connect4 13 Error reports If any errors occur they can be seen here 3 1 2 1 Setting up a networked game If one wants to play using a network the IP address of the one running in server mode has to be known Can be obtained in a shell typing ipconfig ifconfig This will be the IP address a client has to connect to Currently one cannot use any names here Also make sure there won t be a firewall blocking all connections on the used port If a connection is successful this can be seen at point 10 where it will show client connected or server connected depending on the mode If one of the connected sites disconnects or quits the connection will timeout in approx 10 seconds It is advisable to first setup a server before a client tries to connect Only one client can connect to a server at a time HellHound Page 7 of 16 Title H 4 HellChess user guide Softcopy 3 1 3 Description of the board setup screen amp HellChess 1 1 0 0 F El xi 1 Gameboard AA o 5 Edit Mode xa 2 Quit gts Si yy A 4 4 White to play 6 White setup 7 Chat window Gameboard Click here to return to the gameboard Quit Click here to quit the program Black setup Available pieces for black White to pl
13. ue to aire oiia the BraatWorst project At that time only the basics of the search algorithm had been worked ieee ee ipipied HERHHHHHHHHHHHHHH H HNH H H H HHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH H H HH HHHH FENE TERESERETERS on The interface was a simple STDIO input output As this application was only text based it could also be compiled for Windows Linux Amiga and AmigaDE without problems The BraatWorst project was started because we wanted to be able to play a particular game called BratWurst online against each other The main reason for this was that I HellCoder was living in Australia at that time and all other HellHound members were still in Holland During development of the BraatWorst game it became clear that targetting the Amiga platform only wouldn t work because not all Members had internet access on their Amiga The solution would be to go multiple platform so we did Most of the work were the graphics handler and the TCP IP handler At a certain point the BraatWorst game was playable with all these functions on Linux Amiga and Windows This became the BraatWorst engine and is used as a generic library we can link all our software to The BraatWorst game however is still far from finished due to the time spend on HellChess tpt H HHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH The first version of HellChess was released on the 15 of September 2002 and supported Windows Amiga Linux and Palm platforms but it wasn t a great success The chess algorithm
14. utorial up Press this button to scroll through the tutorials upwards Colour to play Indicates the colour to play Piece to place Indicates the piece to be placed by pressing A Cursor move Move the red cursor A button Place the selected piece at the position of the cursor B button Switch the piece to place Or empty for deleting Start button Change the colour to move next Select button Leave the board setup menu oe oe ee HellHound Page 12 of 16 Title 4 HellChess user guide Revision Date Softcopy 3 Jan 2005 HellHound Page 13 of 16 Title 4 HellChess user guide Revision Date Softcopy 3 Jan 2005 HellHound Page 14 of 16 Title 4 HellChess user guide Revision Date Softcopy 3 Jan 2005 HellHound Page 15 of 16 Title 4 HellChess user guide Revision Date Softcopy 3 Jan 2005 Revision History Version Date Author s Description 3 January 2005 HellCoder HellChess user guide a A E E HellHound Page 16 of 16
15. wasn t strong and the game wasn t easy to control Ic HellHound Software It became clear the only road to success was to enhance the graphical touch and boost the chess algorithm We started work on an animation encoder decoder to improve the first impression of HellChess However most of our targetted platforms didn t have a strong CPU so we decided to adapt the encoder decoder for this The interface became easier to work with and the graphics were enhanced Sadly not all members of HellHound were able to play chess so while working on the algorithm small tactical chess setups were used to slowly learn HellHound members the basics of chess The first chess lesson was created on the 17 of March 2003 In total 14 lessons were required for the HellHound members to gain some basic chess knowledge HellHound Page 2 of 16 Title i 4 HellChess user guide Revision Date Softcopy 3 Jan 2005 The new chess algorithm with all new functionalities played chess very well and was finished on the 22nd of April 2004 The BraatWorst engine had also undergone lots of changes so as to become more stable and compatible with all targetted platforms It also had TCP IP support for online play and a small chat utility However our graphics artist wasn t happy at all about this version Although it did have an intro animation the graphics still didn t look good enough We decided to put HellChess into a new skin Pana en an E Pay a
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