Author: Dann Corbit
Date: 21:37:32 01/12/01
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On January 13, 2001 at 00:23:09, Antonio Dieguez wrote: >On January 11, 2001 at 20:36:15, Dann Corbit wrote: > >[snip snip snip] > >>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 My statement was somewhat hyperbolic. I really meant that people cannot write world-class programs without reading some literature on it first. To write a program that simply plays legal moves could be done by anyone. On the other hand, if you did independently invent all of those algorithms yourself, I think probably you are a 1 in 100 programmer or better.
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