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Subject: Re: Scalable Search in Computer Chess

Author: Tom Likens

Date: 06:31:38 05/04/00

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On May 03, 2000 at 22:46:53, Pete Galati wrote:

>On May 03, 2000 at 21:19:38, Peter McKenzie wrote:
>
>>On May 03, 2000 at 20:37:48, Pete Galati wrote:
>>
>>>On May 03, 2000 at 20:24:52, John Coffey wrote:
>>>
>>>>Did I hear somebody say "Scalable Search in Computer Chess"
>>>>is available online?   I went to Amazon.com and found it for
>>>>$50.  I bit pricy but I might break down and buy it.
>>>
>>>That's about the price of it.  I origianlly ordered it from Barnes & Nobel, but
>>>they messed up the whole thing and couldn't figure out how to get it, so last
>>>Thursday I ordered it from Amazon and it arrived this Monday.
>>
>>How about posting a review on Amazon when you've read it?
>>I'm interested in whether there is much new material in the book, or whether
>>most of the book has been published in the form of ICCA articles etc.

I've read the ICCA articles by Ernst and his book contains a large amount
of new material.

--Tom

>
>You'd have to rely on someone else to tell you that, I'm not a member of ICCA
>and haven't seen any of their articles.  Hopefully someone else will speak up
>about that, or Ernst will say something.  As I recall the ICCA Journal is part
>of his acknowledgments, but I think the book is more broad based than merely
>reprinting ICCA articles.
>
>I have not read very far yet.
>
>Pete
>
>>
>>>
>>>To the best of my knowledge, that is the only book along those lines that is
>>>currently in print.  Have a look around this page by David Kessler of the Brute
>>>Force prgram http://www.concentric.net/~lkessler/ccbooks.shtml
>>>
>>>Pete
>>>
>>>>
>>>>What other computer chess program books would be good to read?
>>>>
>>>>John Coffey



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