Excel Chess

[jollierme]

Hello,

i was just wondering if any one had put together a good chess game using excel.

im currently just using a shared workbook with letters that represent the pieces and lowecase vs uppercase letters as teams. its crude but works fairly well.


thanks,

christian.

I know this post is 2+ years late, but I've been working on an Excel chess workbook (http://jollierme.com/Chess.html). It's not terribly attractive, but it has all of the logic for human and computer players (meaning that it does not allow illegal moves). The computer can currently only play a random move. My next step will be to add AI. As Oorang mentioned, VBA's lack of speed may cause the AI to be too slow to be any good, but I intend to find out!.

 

[golfbum71]

I may not be smart enough to get Excel to actually play Chess, but if there are guys that can, this forum has it.

And if someone can teach a spam filter to play chess someone has to be able to make it work.

This article explains the spam filter part and how the guy got it to work...it's over my head, but probably not over everyone here...and it may help with the eventual solution.

http://dbacl.sourceforge.net/spam_chess-1.html

Cheers,
Geoff

 

[HippoCampus]

Good afternoon

this is not a bad effort although it does not use 'picture' pieces

http://jollierme.com/Chess.html

this is a nice visual one but the moves are not automatic

http://ca.geocities.com/ninek_zg/Excel/Excel_VBA_EN.htm

Have fun

Hippo

 

[steve case]

I've got an Excel version of the board and men that I cobbled up, but no, I'm not about to try to program it to play the game. I occasionally use it to set up chess problems so I can move the pieces around, it's a little faster than getting out the board an box of chessmen.

stacase@hotmail.com

 

[RossMcColl]

Can someone program me an Excel girlfriend.

Stupid lonely Valentines day

 

[alphadown]

conditional format the area to color the squares:
=MOD(COLUMN(),2)=MOD(ROW(),2)

* This pattern is incorrect (it's the inverse of what it should be) so color the conditional formatted cells white and then color the entire area manually a darker color to get the proper placement of the black to white setup - each player should have a black square on the left bottom when they face the board

I know this is a very old post to reply to, but one little change fixes the colouring
=MOD(COLUMN(),2)<>MOD(ROW(),2)

 

[Domski]

Can someone program me an Excel girlfriend.

Stupid lonely Valentines day

Any luck? Send her up to Leeds if you don't get on