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Subject: Re: Chess Programmers: Please Share Your Experience!!!

Author: Larry Griffiths

Date: 02:48:33 09/05/00

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On September 05, 2000 at 05:28:44, Alex Sockolar wrote:

>I want to develop a chess application, and got a couple of questions for you
>guys.
>
>1. How much is important the design of such application (do we need a design at
>all)?

I think design will come later after you know what is going on.

>2. When you wrote your first chess program, have you started from a scratch, or
>used another source code as a guidance?

Started from scratch.  Got books and articles as I went along.

>3. According to your experience, how much time does it take for an average
>programmer (say, 3rd year com. science student) to develop a very simple chess
>program with Win32 GUI interface in Visual C++?

I would guess a few months.

>4. Can anybody recommend me the good programming chess books?

How computers play chess by Levy.

>5. What is the most important\difficult aspect of chess application?

alpha-beta pruning and extensions give me the most trouble.

>6. What is the recommended algorithm (full depth search or alpha-beta prunning)?

I use alpha-beta.

>
>Hope that a lot of people will benefit from your answers (not only me)
>
>Thanks a lot.



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