Author: Charles L. Williams
Date: 17:22:04 03/29/99
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On March 29, 1999 at 17:49:31, Derrick Gatewood wrote: >A couple of months ago I was so intrigued by computer chess programs and having >a small background with C++ I began to write my own program. I have to say one >thing, my programming skills are comparable to the ability of a dog trying to >beat crafty... I am not that great. I began my program with a 64 array. and >had the values of the pieces in the array with 0 representing an empty square.. >So far, so good. I then programmed all the legal moves for the pieces. Then >here is where my lack of knowledge comes into place... I made it to where the >search function is no actually a function, it is just a bunch of if, then, >statements... So it played a random game of chess, but no real search. I soon >became sick of this, errrr, program. I trashed that whole project. I am now >starting from scratch. I was wondering if there are any web pages or books out >there that will guide you from the beginning to the completion of a program. I >dont want to look at any source in fear that I will copy... I dont want to do >it this way. Please, any responses will be greatly appreciated. >Thanks all. There's a couple of websites with pseudocode for an alpha-beta search, and it works quite well. Since you're using C++, try to take advantage of classes as much as possible. Like you, I don't look at other people's code that much. Well, maybe a peek now and then. :) Chuck
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