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  |Omschrijving=Embla is a chess program. It plays chess, e.g. generates the moves. It is not a board or so.
  |Status=Completed
  |Contact=Flok
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Embla is a chess program. It plays chess, e.g. generates the moves. It is not a board or so.
Embla is a chess program. It plays chess, e.g. generates the moves. It is not a board or so.


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The raspberry pi zero boots up with the SD card in read-only mode (to prevent SD-damage caused by an unclean shutdown) and starts a small python script. This python script talks the [http://wbec-ridderkerk.nl/html/UCIProtocol.html UCI protocol] understood by Embla and then interfaces the keyboard, the display and the chess program.
The raspberry pi zero boots up with the SD card in read-only mode (to prevent SD-damage caused by an unclean shutdown) and starts a small python script. This python script talks the [http://wbec-ridderkerk.nl/html/UCIProtocol.html UCI protocol] understood by Embla and then interfaces the keyboard, the display and the chess program.
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Latest revision as of 20:11, 21 January 2018

Project Embla
Embla-appliance.jpg
Embla is a chess program. It plays chess, e.g. generates the moves. It is not a board or so.
Status Completed
Contact Flok
Last Update 2018-01-21

Embla is a chess program. It plays chess, e.g. generates the moves. It is not a board or so.

Website: https://vanheusden.com/Embla/

For the people who are afraid of red, yellow, blue and computers, there's now a solution: I made a small box combining a small keyboard these, an even smaller display (a 7110 by Nokia) and a raspberry pi zero.

The raspberry pi zero boots up with the SD card in read-only mode (to prevent SD-damage caused by an unclean shutdown) and starts a small python script. This python script talks the UCI protocol understood by Embla and then interfaces the keyboard, the display and the chess program.