Author: Dan Newman
Date: 19:51:21 11/06/00
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On November 06, 2000 at 15:23:41, lei wrote: >You can buy the book " Chess Software Sourcebook " from Thechesshouse.com . >It's the bible in writing chess program !! > >Ps Written by Robert J. Pawlak, PhD Are you sure? I went to Amazon, and by the reviews it seems to be a book that discusses available chess software products and not a book about programming at all. But maybe there's more to it than that... I don't think there are any self-contained beginner's chess programming books. I think the book that comes closest to this is Levy and Newborn's "How Computers Play Chess", but it's not a programming book really, and it's out of print. That is, they generally don't discuss many implementation details, but just explain in a general way how chess programs work. Most of us that do chess programming have just picked up this stuff in a piecemeal fashion from various books, papers, web-pages, discussions (here, in person, on rgcc, etc.), and from reading various source codes that are available. Also, there's a lot of invention (and re-invention) going on too. -Dan.
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