About Chess Prodigy 1

Chess Prodigy 1 describes an amateur chess computer developed as a hobby project.

At the heart of this project, lies an ATmega644 microcontroller running at 8MZ which hosts a chess engine entirely written in embedded C language.

It implements all rules of chess and, performance-wise, plays up to a club level (about 1600 ELO). Tactical strength is somehow higher, going up to 1856 ELO points, according to Colditz tests.

The last (and probably final) firmware release is version 1.2. For implementation details, license and download section, please refer to "Technical Information" page.

The user input interface relies on four push buttons labeled as MENU, UP, DOWN, ENTER, whereas for output, a 16 x 2 1602 LCD type along with a passive buzzer was used.

The following settings can be tweaked with, before or during the game: