Author: Mark Taylor
Date: 10:10:20 01/16/98
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My reccomendation is to learn by doing. I learned more from writing my first program than all the books I read. Look at this site for the basics of the Alpha-Beta algorithm: http://www.xs4all.nl/~verhelst/chess/search.html#alpha-beta This is all you need to write a first chess program! If you make it a character-based interface (i.e. non graphical) then the rest of the programming will be easy, and you should be able to get a working program going in only a week or two (assuming you already know how to program). Having written your first program, then start reading the recommended books & threads in this newgroup - you will now understand what people are talking about, and you can start adding the refinements that make your program more of an expert.
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