Author: Pete Galati
Date: 11:00:54 09/24/99
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On September 24, 1999 at 07:07:49, Jari Huikari wrote: >On September 23, 1999 at 13:35:49, Pete Galati wrote: > >>On September 22, 1999 at 08:47:36, Jari Huikari wrote: >> >>>On September 22, 1999 at 07:39:31, Bas Hamstra wrote: >>> >>>>A great suggestion, Jari. Very realistic. Hope it works. It would be nice if >we could vote for chapters (topics) to be included. >>> >>>I'd like to see (if it'll come true) - in addition to basic stuff - some >>>special 'philosophical' chapters too, comparing e.g. weaknesses and strenghts >>>of men and programs in chess. And suggestions for ideas/tricks to try in the >>>future. >>> >>> Jari > >>It all sounds like a good project. But I'm only guessing here, and saying that >>it'll only be talked about and never happen. > >Doesn't seem to be even much talked about so far. Perhaps I could put such a >'book' to my web site, if it won't contain much large pictures. Would it >be readable with using just ASCII-characters for pictures too? I don't understand what you mean here, if you mean photo s or scanned images of ascci text, then that's allmost unreadable. But maybe what you mean is like the html images that Franck Zibi uses on his "Bitmaps" webpage located at Univ of Nis: http://www.cent.co.yu/chess/bitboards.htm I've never tried to do that only made separating lines in html, but it's probably not to hard to do with an html editor, I just use the one that came with Netscape but I have no idea if it can make the images that Franck used. >How many >pictures would be really needed? What could be a good name for it? >'Programming Chess - How to get started'? > >Could it be "FREEWARE"? Those who will would write it together, and let >whoever freely copy it? (Not to edit or sell with profit). > > Jari I have no suggestions for a name, but just some thoughts, that allot of the work has more or less been done and available on the web. There's big holes to be filled however, especially from the perspective of someone who (like me) knows very little about programming. But posibly somebody could collect as much of the important phases of assembling a Chess program and ask the authors to agree to submit their work to be part of the overall book. Then it would probably be easier to make the book avaialable for download than it would be to post the entire book, reading such a book online would actually be quite expensive (phone bills & online costs etc) but downloading the book would allow reading & studying it offline. Pete
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