Eschecs - Pascal chess program

[Roland Chastain]

Hello! Here is Eschecs 2.4.1. Please see first post of this discussion. All observations welcome.

[Roland Chastain]

I began to write a short documentation in three languages. The french version (lisezmoi.txt) is the most completed. I have to finish the english and german files (liesmich.txt, readme.txt). A help would be welcome.

The game itself is available in the same three languages. If someone who speaks another language would contribute a translation, he would be welcome too. One would just have to create a file (for example) chinese.inc, starting from a copy of english.inc (in the languages folder).

Any other contribution or observation welcome.

[Ñuño Martínez]

Maybe I can contribute with a translation to Spanish. Give me some time.

[Edit] Done. I thought it would be harder.

const
  TEXTS: array[TText] of string = (
    'Eschecs', // txEschecs
    'Crear un acceso directo en el escritorio', // txShortcut
    'Ayuda', // txHelp
    'Salir', // txQuit
    'Acerca de Eschecs', // txAbout
    'Movimientos', // txMoves
    'Movimiento de la computadora', // txComputerMove
    'Partida automática', // txAutoPlay
    'Tablero', // txBoard
    'Nuevo juego', // txNewGame
    'Invertir el tablero', // txFlip
    'Opciones', // txOptions
    'Tablero de mármol', // txMarble
    'Promover pieza', // txPromotion
    'Caballo', // txKnight
    'Alfil', // txBishop
    'Torre', // txRook
    'Reina', // txQueen
    
    'Acceso directo creado.', // txShortcut
    'Para mover una pieza, haga click en ella y después haga click en el escaque al que quiera moverla.', // txHelp
    'Programa de Ajedrez en Pascal por Roland Chastain.', // txAbout
    'Movimiento ilegal.', // txIllegalMove
    
    'Blancas mueven.', // txWhiteToMove
    'Negras mueven.', // txBlackToMove
    'Blancas ganan.', // txWhiteWins
    'Negras ganan.', // txBlackWins
    'Jaque.', // txCheck
    '¡Jaque mate!' // txCheckmate
    '¡Ahogado!', // txStalemate
    '¡Tablas!' // txDraw
  );

Note that I'm using Spanish from Spain (Castillian, actually) so people from South America, Africa and Philippines (as well as Sephardi Jews) would use different expressions (Yes, all them [may] talk Spanish). Also I tried to use the official chess lingo, but I'm not sure everything is correct (there's a lot of time I don't play chess).

[edit 2]
Ok, tested.

First: It works with Wine.
Second: No levels. And since I didn't play chess for ages it wiped the board in few minutes.

[Roland Chastain]

Maybe I can contribute with a translation to Spanish. Give me some time.

[Edit] Done. I thought it would be harder.

Great! Thank you very much. I go at once to build the Spanish version.

[edit 2]
Ok, tested.

First: It works with Wine.

Thank you for testing.

Second: No levels. And since I didn't play chess for ages it wiped the board in few minutes.

OK, I will add it in the next version. The chess engine with its current settings isn't very strong, but he can easily surprise an occasional chess player (as you or me). I have to experiment how the engine behaves if I change the depth of the recursive evaluation.

Thank you again!

[Roland Chastain]

Done.

[Ñuño Martínez]

Glad to help.

[Roland Chastain]

@Ñuño

In the next version of the game, one can set the opponent strength. So there will be three new items in the menu. Please could you tell me if my Spanish translation is correct?

    'Más débil adversario', // txWeakerOpponent
    'Normal adversario', // txNormalOpponent
    'Más fuerte adversario', // txStrongerOpponent

[de_jean_7777]

Great you're working on it still. One thing, clicking the version number in the links on your page always leads to the dutch version even if other language is clicked.

[Roland Chastain]

Great you're working on it still.

Thank you. It's a never ending story.

One thing, clicking the version number in the links on your page always leads to the dutch version even if other language is clicked.

Thank you for reporting the problem. It's weird because I have again tested all the links and I could successfully download the different files.

[de_jean_7777]

It's weird because I have again tested all the links and I could successfully download the different files.

The problem is with the middle part where the version number is in your links, since your links are consisted actually of three links (<a> elements). The middle version part always points to the dutch version.