phpChess Blog2010-03-19T02:15:49ZChristian BlumhoffCopyright 2010, Christian BlumhoffSPHPBLOGWeb Rebuild We are planning to reflect the phpChess release of version 4.0 with a remake of phpChess.com This will move us to wordpress, wiki and forum only. This blog will go, as will a couple of other things that made things complicated (like the shop).
All software from now on is free from phpChess (under gnu license) and we hope donations will see us through. Fingers crossed.]]>http://www.phpchess.com/blog/index.php?entry=entry090222-1509282009-02-22T00:00:00Z2009-02-22T00:00:00Z2008 -> 2009 2009 will have an ambitious program and will be our busiest year yet. The following list is the asperational goal, but reality may differ.
1) Debug phpChess until as perfect as we can get it (includes clients) 2) reskin site to fit in with phpChess being GNU licensed. 3) Tournaments (bugbear for a long while now) 4) Online training and lessons 5) points based betting system
There are other elements but there is too much detail. We simply hope to stabalize phpChess so that it can do everything a basic chess site needs to have.
Have a great holiday, we will be back early in the new year. Christian]]>http://www.phpchess.com/blog/index.php?entry=entry081220-0825282008-12-20T00:00:00Z2008-12-20T00:00:00ZphpChess New Version releasedhttp://www.phpChess.com/softsell/
phpChess 3.9.7 is a pre-requisite for phpchess for PC which was finally released today! you can download it for free here in rar format or here in zip format
We have tested the application on Vista and XP with sp2.
Pre-requisits are: ================== - .Net Framework 2 - DirectX 9.0c - Internet Connection - a 3D Grafics card which can display 1024*1024 textures - at least 512MB RAM - about 50MB of Harddisc space
We will update documentation and links as required. you can find out more about phpChess for PC here ]]>http://www.phpchess.com/blog/index.php?entry=entry080831-1031102008-08-31T00:00:00Z2008-08-31T00:00:00Zdelays delays and more delays We are very sorry to have to announce the fact that we have been further delayed in releasing both the new version of phpChess - Server and the phpChess PC Client. This is due to the fact that we experiencing a challange in regards to the use of a functionality. When we started the project we were using what was then considered GNU licensed code. The license since then has changed, and while phpChess maintains that when the code was implemented we were licensed to do so, the provider insists on this code being now chargeable. The cost of the code is prohibitive. We are now facing the choice of either writing our own, finding a replacement or to continue with poublication rergardless. To avoid legal issues we are now persuing our own development.
On the server side the open challange is taking a little longer than expected but should be worth the wait.
We hope you can forgive us and hope you stick with it one more month.
All the best and kind regards Christian]]>http://www.phpchess.com/blog/index.php?entry=entry080801-0633432008-08-01T00:00:00Z2008-08-01T00:00:00ZphpChess for PC Launchdate delayed :-( We apologize for this delay but hope that we will make the wait worth your while. ALl the best and kind regards
phpChess Limited]]>http://www.phpchess.com/blog/index.php?entry=entry080630-1652432008-06-30T00:00:00Z2008-06-30T00:00:00ZphpChess for PC Launchdatehttp://www.phpchess.com/blog/index.php?entry=entry080528-1535232008-05-28T00:00:00Z2008-05-28T00:00:00ZphpChess for PC will be freehttp://www.phpchess.com/blog/index.php?entry=entry080521-1220272008-05-21T00:00:00Z2008-05-21T00:00:00ZphpChess Live! - UPDATEphpChess Live! is becoming a reality for Blitz Chess phpChess is indeed now going for the full real-time online experience. This did mean that we had to abandon the php framework for messaging. We are currently concentrating on creating a thin java client and a distince windows server which will be able to run full, real-time games much like any large server. William McKee from Canada is coding the engine and in collaboration we will distribute this server solution for chess by early 2009. Prices for this are to be determined by will definitly be lower then the $50,000 we were asked for per annum when we were looking for a solution ;)]]>http://www.phpchess.com/blog/index.php?entry=entry080502-0917192008-05-02T00:00:00Z2008-05-02T00:00:00ZphpChess PC Client updatephpChess Client to be released in May We have decided to wrap up development for phpChess for PC by the end of May. We have been tinkering with this way too long now, and it should be released. Price is forecast at a very low £9, which equates to about $17. We are interested in comments on pricing. ]]>http://www.phpchess.com/blog/index.php?entry=entry080502-0913412008-05-02T00:00:00Z2008-05-02T00:00:00Z