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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