Pulsar Chess Engine
Multilevel Chess Program AI
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2.10for iPhone, iPad and more
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Pulsar Chess Engine 螢幕截圖
About Pulsar Chess Engine
The Pulsar Chess Engine plays chess and six variants all with adjustable levels : Chess960, Crazyhouse, Losers, Atomic, Three Checks and Giveaway. Games played that have a result or resignation are logged and can be reviewed. There are additional game collections when users open their log file of classic and modern master games including Fischer, Carlsen and Morphy collections. If the game is a chess game or Chess960, Crafty engine analysis is available.
Pulsar values mobility and active positions. In app there is an article with more on its playing style and how to train against it. With the variants, each has its own style. Chess960, Three Checks and Crazyhouse are the more chess like variants and adoptable to learn to play for anyone with interest. The rules of all games are in app.
Pulsar has levels of play from beginner too advanced. Games with a time control are the hardest though Pulsar doesn't call the player's time. The time is more to handicap Pulsar's strength, but users will have a clock and can see if it's gone negative if they want to play the time control.
The game button - configure game menu item, lets the user control the variant and difficulty. It defaults to Chess at Easy(lowest level) but remembers the current settings when the App restarts. There are choices of pieces and board color schemes. The Pulsar program was originally developed by me for computers starting in 1998 and came to mobile for the first time in 2014.
Pulsar's board is accessible to the blind using Voice Over, a screen reader. Tap on a square and it will say whats on it and double tap to move or choose from three move methods. A screen reader can normally read anything with text like a button, but a board is a collection of images. To make it accessible, text must be returned to Voice Over when a tap is in the area of a square.
Pulsar began as a chess program and later learned variants. It ran extensively on two servers for many years both at chess and variants. The ratings on the board reflect strength I saw in rated play on handicapped bots. They are not 100% exact but generalizations I made from the various bots I ran at different settings.
If in the new game selector, Play vs. Computer is unchecked the user can move for both sides. This is to allow two people at same location to use the App as a board for a game and have the app enforce move legality and results for whatever variant is selected.
Pulsar values mobility and active positions. In app there is an article with more on its playing style and how to train against it. With the variants, each has its own style. Chess960, Three Checks and Crazyhouse are the more chess like variants and adoptable to learn to play for anyone with interest. The rules of all games are in app.
Pulsar has levels of play from beginner too advanced. Games with a time control are the hardest though Pulsar doesn't call the player's time. The time is more to handicap Pulsar's strength, but users will have a clock and can see if it's gone negative if they want to play the time control.
The game button - configure game menu item, lets the user control the variant and difficulty. It defaults to Chess at Easy(lowest level) but remembers the current settings when the App restarts. There are choices of pieces and board color schemes. The Pulsar program was originally developed by me for computers starting in 1998 and came to mobile for the first time in 2014.
Pulsar's board is accessible to the blind using Voice Over, a screen reader. Tap on a square and it will say whats on it and double tap to move or choose from three move methods. A screen reader can normally read anything with text like a button, but a board is a collection of images. To make it accessible, text must be returned to Voice Over when a tap is in the area of a square.
Pulsar began as a chess program and later learned variants. It ran extensively on two servers for many years both at chess and variants. The ratings on the board reflect strength I saw in rated play on handicapped bots. They are not 100% exact but generalizations I made from the various bots I ran at different settings.
If in the new game selector, Play vs. Computer is unchecked the user can move for both sides. This is to allow two people at same location to use the App as a board for a game and have the app enforce move legality and results for whatever variant is selected.
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最新版本2.10更新日誌
Last updated on 2024年05月03日
歷史版本
Now animates pulsar's moves with an option to turn this off in settings.
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Version History
2.10
2024年05月03日
Now animates pulsar's moves with an option to turn this off in settings.
2.00
2023年10月17日
Fixes for some buttons being to close to top of screen on iPhone.
1.97
2023年08月29日
Added a new level after difficult
1.96
2023年08月27日
Fix to flip the coordinates on chess board with new flip feature
1.95
2023年08月24日
Option to flip the board on the review screen
Chess engine analysis available in chess960
Chess engine analysis available in chess960
1.94
2023年01月07日
Added four new game collections for new installs. Existing users who delete their extra game collections will have the option to get the current ten extra game collections.
1.93
2021年08月24日
Games were retract move is used will be marked unrated in the log file game listing
1.92
2021年08月22日
fixed excessive redrawing bug
1.91
2021年08月15日
Made the regular chess easy level a little easier. Level 2 is the old easy as that level wasn't much different and level 3 resumes as normal
fixed bug on some devices that when app first launches there was a delay on making first move
Can now make moves when reviewing log file games.
fixed bug on some devices that when app first launches there was a delay on making first move
Can now make moves when reviewing log file games.
1.90
2020年05月20日
Fixed some layout sizing issues introduced in last release.
1.89
2020年04月28日
Support for all iPhone screen sizes
1.88
2020年04月21日
bug fixes covering new updates
1.87
2020年04月18日
Show book moves now on by default when looking at games from game collections and the user's log file
Added translation of "How to beat Pulsar" in German and Italian
Added translation of "How to beat Pulsar" in German and Italian
1.86
2020年04月15日
Added "How to beat Pulsar" help option on Game menu
1.85
2020年04月13日
Better support for dark mode
Settings and New game view which were broken in dark mode before, fixed
Black board background option in settings
In Open log file flow, option to get additional PGN game collections
Settings and New game view which were broken in dark mode before, fixed
Black board background option in settings
In Open log file flow, option to get additional PGN game collections
1.80
2019年12月18日
German Translation
1.79
2019年11月25日
Translated to French
1.78
2019年10月21日
Translated into Spanish
1.77
2019年10月07日
Now translated into Italian
1.76
2019年06月10日
Fix for a rare crash with the accessibility code
Issue where if the last board was a chess 960 shuffle board and user went to open non chess960 PGN from log file it used last shuffle board
Issue where if the last board was a chess 960 shuffle board and user went to open non chess960 PGN from log file it used last shuffle board
1.75
2019年06月06日
Added an option to play Chess960 otherwise known as Fischer Random
Fix for an infrequent crash with the notation code introduced for last move display
Fix for an infrequent crash with the notation code introduced for last move display
1.70
2019年05月21日
iPhone board area bigger with an option for a plus one size up as well when analysis engine is showing which is visible when user open a chess game from their log of played games
Setting hash ( memory engine use) now refers in settings to "MB" not megs
Setting hash ( memory engine use) now refers in settings to "MB" not megs
1.65
2019年05月05日
Can set Pulsar's Hash value(memory used) in settings. Has more impact on longer time controls.
1.60
2019年05月03日
Added Crafty Engine Analysis when looking at Chess games from user's played game file
1.55
2019年04月30日
Can now open users log file in App
Show Thinking and Show Book Moves options in settings
New Move arrow images for forward and backward buttons
Regular notation for last move, not long algebraic
Show Thinking and Show Book Moves options in settings
New Move arrow images for forward and backward buttons
Regular notation for last move, not long algebraic
Pulsar Chess Engine FAQ
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以下為Pulsar Chess Engine的最低配置要求。
iPhone
須使用 iOS 9.0 或以上版本。
iPad
須使用 iPadOS 9.0 或以上版本。
Mac
須使用 macOS 10.15 或以上版本。
iPod touch
須使用 iOS 9.0 或以上版本。
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