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Subject: Re: I am a sixteen yearold, novice programmer. I am looking for a chess

Author: Tom Kerrigan

Date: 05:05:31 08/06/98

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The array should actually be 10 x 12. I don't see how you can use a 10 x 10
mailbox array without the possibility of going out of bounds.

I haven't seen KC Chess, but I would imagine that TSCP is similar, if not
better. You may want to check it out:
http://home.earthlink.net/~tkerrga

Cheers,
Tom

On August 05, 1998 at 16:10:14, Jeff Anderson wrote:

>On August 05, 1998 at 07:29:58, Tom Kerrigan wrote:
>
>>The only exame of Pascal chess source code I can think of is CHESS 0.5,
>>published in 1978. Compare this to GNU Chess, Crafty, TSCP, etc.
>
>
>A very simple program called KC Chess written by Kevin Phillips and Craig S.
>Bruce was written in PASCAL.  It goes only 4 ply I believe, but it is very well
>documented.  I am using a report they did on as my 'bible' of sorts as I try to
>make my program.
>For thing I noticed is that I found interesting is that for the board they made
>a 10 x 10 array rather than 8 x 8 so they can check for legality of moves
>easier.  There are lots if other interesting things in the report too.
>
>Jeff



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