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Subject: Re: Are there free heavily commented chess programs?

Author: Pete Galati

Date: 09:00:40 06/04/01

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On June 04, 2001 at 07:54:17, Jari Huikari wrote:

>On June 04, 2001 at 06:27:05, Gian-Carlo Pascutto wrote:
>
>>On June 04, 2001 at 05:47:22, Uri Blass wrote:
>>
>>>I will explain what I mean by heavily commented.
>>>
>>>I mean that people who look at one file do not need to look at other files to
>>>understand things like the definition of variables.
>>>
>>>I will give an example for a possible part of heavily commented chess program.
>>>In this case the idea of the program is to do it possible to change the
>>>dimension of the board
>>
>>Beowulf is the most heavily commented chessprogram I know of,
>>but still it isn't nowhere as close as what you describe.
>
>I have seen one heavily commented program: Minimax. It's programmed
>in BASIC and the commens are in german. (If german is too
>diificult to read, one could try to translate the code with babelfish.
>
>					Jari

I've seen some of Babelfish's translations, and they're not all that far from
the Monty Python sketch about the translation book.

I haven't looked at any code in a long time, I should take a look at Beowulf's.

Pete



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