README

Hopeless

Overview

Hopeless is a multiplatform CECP chess engine written in Pascal by Pawel Koziol. The engine has a built-in graphical interface, named Clericus.

This is a Lazarus version of the original Delphi project.

Thanks to Pawel who kindly contributed to the reactivated project.

Build

make hopeless
make clericus

Or open clericus.lpi in Lazarus, and select the desired build mode in project options.

Credits

Hopeless uses WBUnit by dr Maciej Szmit. WBUnit was inspired by the work of Norbert Dudek (Winboard unit), Grzegorz Olczak (MyChess) and Giuseppe Canella (Geko).

Clericus Chess GUI uses:

• Silk Icons
• Marroquin chess pieces by Armando Hernandez Marroquin