Author: Lieven Clarisse
Date: 06:07:54 11/16/02
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On November 16, 2002 at 08:31:15, Bob Durrett wrote: >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? Personally i like visual c++ 6.0 best, but this seems no longer available. There are free and good C/C++ available: http://www.digitalmars.com/ http://www.delorie.com/djgpp/
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