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Subject: Re: Help! I need a book about chess programming

Author: lei

Date: 22:13:14 11/06/00

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On November 06, 2000 at 22:51:21, Dan Newman wrote:

>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.


Sorry ! May by I wrong !
>
>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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