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Subject: Re: The old chess program "OwlChess"

Author: Antonio Dieguez

Date: 21:23:09 01/12/01

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On January 11, 2001 at 20:36:15, Dann Corbit wrote:

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>So, those that share are somehow necessary for progress to exist.  I do not
>believe any claims that people can write chess programs without reading existing
>literature on that topic before hand.

hello Dann, do not exaggerate, many persons read something about the topic of
chess programming before programming a chess program because is too easy to find
information about that. But I "claim"(oh, you won't believe), that I had a
working chess program without looking at any info, the "minimax" I founded
myself how do a recursion to calculate the move, and also the "alpha beta", I
had a lot of bugs, for example as I had the alphabeta implemented with the limit
values in class arrays, were easy to do mistakes but later when seeing all the
examples with alfa and beta as parameters of the function I did it too. Also I
were scoring moves and acumulating the score(stupid things, lets say move a pawn
to the center, move a horse more near the centre, move rooks to e1/d1/e8/d8 :),
castle, move forward or backward etc because I thunk a scoring of a chess
position would be too much time expensive, but off course the "sharing info"
convinced me inmediately to implement the eval function.)
The hashtables thing is also great and much other things and this forum also and
I say thanks:thanks



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