Author: Bob Durrett
Date: 08:01:12 11/16/02
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On November 16, 2002 at 09:07:54, Lieven Clarisse wrote: >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/ What's the difference between a "C development system" and a "C compiler"? Which to download? Bob D. > >http://www.delorie.com/djgpp/
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