Excel Games

Non-productive use of essential software!

Excel Chess

Chess
Download Excel File

Description

This version of the program was written by Meir Bogot.

The graphics can be described as primative and it's not a terribly strong player (I was able to trade a bishop for Excel's queen within 5 moves...), but a decent program no doubt. Unfortunately, the code is not open for study.



Chess
Download Excel File

Description

This version of the program was written by Joe Miller, of jollierme.com.

Joe's description of the program follows:

"While it knows all of the legal moves for a given position, it is only smart enough to make a random move. I hope to improve on this in the future. Given that Excel is known more for its user interface than speed of computation, I don't ever expect Shallow Bot to be that good. If I can make it good enough that it can beat me regularly, I'll be happy with it.

"'Shallow' is a play on a number of great programs with "Deep" in their names. You can't get less deep than random moves. I didn't say it was an interesting story..."

I would describe Joe as slightly too modest. Sure, a random move is pretty weak to play against, but the interface is pretty cool, actually, and it's an open code (GNU GPL license, in fact), so his head's in the right place.

Daniel Ferry also has also written in to tell us about his Chess Game Viewer, which might be handy for you. Give it a look.

Comments

This site's comment form has been retired -- shown below is the archived comment history from the previous site.