Author: Christophe Theron
Date: 19:29:04 11/16/02
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On November 16, 2002 at 11:01:12, Bob Durrett wrote:
>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/
DJGPP (the compiler) + RHIDE (the developpement environment including the
editor).
That's what I use to develop Chess Tiger since 1997.
Christophe
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