Update

Since the last update I have:


Made it an awful let quicker, thanks to a great suggestion by an anonymous guy on an anonymous internet forum. The majority of the time taken for the AI to move was spent just copying chess board data structures (this had to be done about 500,000 times, and each board was an array of 120 items). The suggestion was to add a function that undoes a chess move, and then I could do the following in my recursive function:

recursive function:
     makeMove
     call recursive function again
     undoMove
end function

Because of the beauty of recursion, I only ever need one board to accomplish this, it's fantastic. This has sped up the time the AI takes on a very tricky configuration from a maximum of 13 seconds to 3 seconds.


I also made a few little petty optimisations, added an icon, and displayed where the AI last moved (because I found if I blinked when it moved, I couldn't work out where it had moved to/from).