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Subject: Re: Chess engine in Perl?

Author: Gareth McCaughan

Date: 15:54:54 03/30/04

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On March 28, 2004 at 03:24:53, Steffen Jakob wrote:

> does anybody know if there exists a chess engine which is written in Perl?

I've written one in Python. It plays very badly because (1) it was
intended to (the point was to provide an opponent for my godson,
who I think was 6 years old at the time), (2) it was written in
a weekend, (3) Python is a beautiful language but doesn't tend
to run very fast, and (4) it's the only chess program I've written
and I don't have a good intuition for what works well at such
a low NPS rate.

I don't think I could stomach writing a chess program in Perl,
but de gustibus non est disputandum.

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