Author: Keith Evans
Date: 09:42:50 07/10/03
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On July 10, 2003 at 04:56:45, Andrei Fortuna wrote: >On July 10, 2003 at 01:29:25, Keith Evans wrote: > >>Have any chess programmers here read Dan Heisman's "Elements of Positional >>Evaluation - How Chess Pieces Get Their Power"? >> >>I believe that in the preface he says "The theory should provide new insights >>into chess annotation, teaching, and quiescent position evaluation for chess >>computer algorithms." >> >>I don't know if any chess programmers have found it useful. > >I found no reviews of it on the net. >And on Amazon it is out of stock. >Both makes it not an option for my list. > >But the quote you make sounds like it might be an interesting book :) > >Andrei You can read a little bit about that book at: http://mywebpages.comcast.net/danheisman/Events_Books/book_descriptions.html If you can log into ICC then you can ask Dan about it on his "Ask the Renaissance Man" chess.fm internet radio show. The big question for me is did any chess programmers find it useful? It may be that Dan thinks it's potentially useful for programmers, but that it doesn't translate well to computer chess. Russell Reagan has a quote about that book on the page, so maybe he could comment. Regards, Keith
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