Author: David Rasmussen
Date: 11:53:40 01/19/03
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On January 19, 2003 at 13:37:43, Albert Bertilsson wrote: >Hello! I'm a newcomer to the area of chess programming and I'm just curious why >there are so many chess programmers. > >So why do you do it? >a) The money I make from it. >b) The challange in writing a good chess engine is so entertaining. >c) To beat a particular chess playing friend. >d) To beat the human race and prove computers are better (at chess at least). >e) Because I'm so good at it. >f) I've got nothing else to do. >g) Some one talked me into it. >h) Something else. > It's an ideal case study of programming for a single person. It is relatively complex and large. It is a self-contained problem. It is very discrete in nature. It's contains several mathematical properties. Etc... It's a great learning ground for all sorts of other things, learning good design, learning to concentrate and organize your work and your ideas etc. It is a joy to watch the math "come alive" and "think" for itself. So I guess it's b) for me. It's not f). I have far too little time for chess programming for my own taste. /David
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