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Subject: Re: *poof* expected in a week : )

Author: Bob Durrett

Date: 05:31:15 11/16/02

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On November 15, 2002 at 23:12:01, Dann Corbit wrote:

>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).

Won't I need to purchase a compiler?

Bob D.



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