Huo Chess

HOW TO PLAY
In order to play, just enter the coordinates of the starting and the ending square of your move - by following the directions of the program. For example for move e2 -> e4 enter "e ENTER 2 ENTER e ENTER 4 ENTER".

HOW TO CUSTOMIZE
Huo Chess version 0.81 is significantly small in size (61.5 KB) Note: The Huo Chess version 0.82 - C, has deep thinking capability (up to 20 moves: 10 half-moves for the white and 10 half-moves for the black pieces) and plays decent chess.
Use Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 or Visual Studio 2010 to customize the code.
The program has an opening book capability, which means that anyone can optimize the program by adding his/her own opening moves data in the respective folder Huo Chess Opening Book (which should be in the same directory with the executable). Moreover, you can also optimize the way Huo Chess thinks by changing the CountScore function and the way the computer values the pieces or the chessboard position.

SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS
Huo Chess version 0.81 requires .NET Framework 2.0 or above in order to run. You can download that framework from the Microsoft site for free. In order to change the source code and re-compile, you will need the Microsoft Visual Studio 2008. You can download the Visual Studio 2008 Express Edition from the Microsoft site for free.

Improvements from previous v0.722 edition
Changed the ComputerMove, HumanMove, CountScore, ElegxosOrthotitas functions. Increased thinking depths from 8 to 20. The C++ edition is still in 0.81 version (separate ComputerMove functions still exist). The game version 0.82 will be soon released in C++ edition.