Monday, January 31, 2005

Project progress

Fortunately the project has picked up some pace in the past few days. I completed the move generator for the chess engine today. Which is almost one third of the work done. The other two third being the brute force alpha beta search and the static evaluation function. I am now planning to also design a java based GUI for the chess engine so that players can play the game online through a web based interface. If I am able to accomplish that, it would make for a good presentation.

Saturday, January 29, 2005

A bit of work ..

My project ( a chess engine) which had been lagging for a while has finally taken off.. I did a bit of work on it. Although it is far from over..I should be able to get the move generator working before the end of this week, which means I will have a random chess engine. The search and evaluate part should take a bit more time. I was also planning to make a web interface for it (using java). It would be much cooler and I think the teachers would prefer that rather than just the command line.

Friday, January 28, 2005

The finals

We had class whole day.. I slept for most part of that. In the evening we had the basketball finals with IT. We played okay but lost 18-38. I was guarding Pylee, it was tough (he is quite tall) but I did my best. Unfortunately, we couldn't get the coordination right. Anyway ..life goes on..

Tuesday, January 25, 2005

The basketball match

We had a strike again today, so there was no class in the morning ( like the past few days ).
We had a basketball match with Mech in the evening. It was a really hard fought match. In the first quarter we were down 7-0. I scored 3 baskets after that and got our team close to their score. The match was too close for comfort. At the end of each quarter the scores were level. In fact we had 3 overtimes. In the first overtime the mech guys had a lead of 5 points. I scored a 3 pointer and then Diaz scored another 2 so we were level again. In the end we won the close fought battle by just 3 points. It was one helluva match, with all the crowd support and the resistance given by the opposite team. For us it was a real team effort, with each guy pitching in. The positives were that we never gave up at any point in the match. The only con was that, we could have converted a few more free throws. At the end of the day... I'm a happy man.

Monday, January 24, 2005

Another day...

Like the past 4-5 days we had a strike today also so there was no class. Which meant that we got to play age of empires again..I did a bit of work for my project.
We had a basketball match today..Electronics versus Safety. EC lost a match which they could have won.. My match is tomorrow with Mechanical. I hope that goes off well.

Sunday, January 23, 2005

Long time

Well it has been ages since I wrote something.. I returned from Delhi around a week ago, a week were there were more strikes than classes.
I attended a project management symposium in Model Engineering college yesterday (in hopes that it will help me in my forthcoming project, which is going at a very slow pace ). We had a nice lunch buffet there and slept through the latter half of the symposium.
These days I am playing a bit of basketball in the evenings, which should help me decrease my increased waistline.
Today was wasted in playing age of empires on the LAN.

Saturday, January 01, 2005

Does your car have enough personality? Can it do the jig?

Does your car have enough personality? Can it do the jig?: Really nice robo-car dance.. reminded me of the cartoon transformers ;)