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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