Author: Dann Corbit
Date: 20:12:01 11/15/02
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On November 15, 2002 at 22:06:13, Bob Durrett wrote: >On November 15, 2002 at 21:46:59, Dann Corbit wrote: > >>On November 15, 2002 at 21:03:08, Bob Durrett wrote: >> >>>On November 15, 2002 at 20:12:56, Gian-Carlo Pascutto wrote: >>> >>>>On November 15, 2002 at 20:06:22, Bob Durrett wrote: >>>> >>>>> >>>>>Suppose you were a Computer Science Professor offering a two semester graduate >>>>>course in chess engine design to graduate computer science students. >>>>> >>>>>What would be the course content? Course Outline? Prerequisites? >>>>> >>>>>Bob D. >>>> >>>>http://brick.bitpit.net/~marcelk/2002/marcelk-thesis.ps.gz >>>> >>>>-- >>>>GCP >>> >>>OK, I can read it. Is the idea that the thesis would be the text for the >>>course? >> >>Yes. With supplemental reading: >> >> Author: Ernst A. Heinz >> Title: ``Scalable Search in Computer Chess'' >> Subtitle: Algorithmic Enhancements and Experiments at High Search Depths >> Series: Computational Intelligence (ser. eds. Profs. Bibel and Kruse) >> Publisher: Vieweg Verlag [268 pages, 31 figures, 57 tables] >> ISBN: 3-528-05732-7 >> >>You read those two things and *poof* you know how to write a decent chess >>engine. > >OK. I'm reading the thesis and ordered Heinz's book from Amazon.com. I expect >to have that *poof* within a week after I finish the readings. : ) > >Are you sure I don't have to be able to program in C ? Maybe a slight detour to >learn that first? I expect you will need to learn C before you even read the book/postscript file with complete comprehension. Add this one: The C Programming Language, Second Edition by Brian W. Kernighan and Dennis M. Ritchie. Prentice Hall, Inc., 1988. ISBN 0-13-110362-8 (paperback), 0-13-110370-9 (hardback).
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