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Subject: Re: chess programming basics

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 13:39:19 01/12/98

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On January 12, 1998 at 16:36:02, Pat Butler wrote:

>Can anybody recommend a book or other source of info on how to
>write a chess playing program.I would like to find a guide
>on programming end games,openings ,evaluation functions etc.I want to
>initially write at least a novice standard program.


the "classic" most of used for a start was "Chess Skill in Man and
Machine", edited by Peter Frey, published by Springer-Verlag.  It
describes chess4.x, and is still "must" reading for a new programmer.

After that, I'd try to find "computers, chess and cognition", edited
by Jonathan Schaeffer, published by Springer-Verlag.  It provides a lot
of details about Deep Thought (hardware), HiTech (hardware) and Cray
Blitz (software and parallel search).



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