Author: John Wentworth
Date: 08:53:06 01/14/01
Hello. I'am just starting to write a Chess program and I'am coming across problems I'am sure most Chess programmers solved years ago. If someone could give some general tips or tell me how to avoid some pitfalls I would appreciate it. I am an experienced programmer( I do it for a living), but this is my first attempt at Chess. I have some general questions too: 1. First problem, when doing a search, I want to be able to identify reasonable moves and not waste time looking at moves that are meaningless. I guess this is a selective type of search, how do you "select" those moves. 2. What is a tablebase, I own Hiarcs and when it loads it says it's initializing them. 3. I'am using Crafty's book, any know problems with this book? I just want a program that plays around 1800-1900 level that could beat my old Par Excellence, not trying to make a GM here. Thanks for the advice\help.
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