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Subject: Re: Chess Programmers -- take note: M. N. J. van Kervinck's Master's Thesis

Author: Tony Werten

Date: 05:58:56 08/20/02

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On August 20, 2002 at 07:56:49, James Swafford wrote:

>On August 20, 2002 at 06:14:04, Tony Werten wrote:
>
>>On August 19, 2002 at 21:41:26, Dann Corbit wrote:
>>
>>>Is an excellent tutorial on writing a chess program.  A pleasant read, and easy
>>>to follow.  It contains no difficult mathematics and is easy to understand.
>>>
>>>Highly recommended.
>>
>>And the fact that this is a thesis in 2002 gives you a nice idea about the
>>current level of duch universities as well.
>
>I'm not sure what to read into that... are you being sarcastic?
>Or are you pointing out that it's a thesis and not a dissertation?

Sorry, I was being sarcastic. The thesis has no depth and contains completely no
news. The complete contents can be found in other thesis or publications.

I know a thesis is called a "transference of bones from one grave to another"
but for something written in 2002 this is really one of the worse examples I
have seen.

And the supervisor, who is supposed to be an expert didn't notice/care/know.
Well, what can you expect, the guy is an architect.

Tony

>
>--
>James
>
>
>>
>>Tony
>>
>>>
>>>The page of blik chess engine (has thesis):
>>>http://brick.bitpit.net/~blik/
>>>
>>>Postscript:
>>>http://brick.bitpit.net/~marcelk/2002/marcelk-thesis.ps.gz
>>>
>>>PDF:
>>>http://brick.bitpit.net/~marcelk/2002/marcelk-thesis.pdf



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