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Subject: Re: How long did it take you to write your first chess program ??

Author: Frank Schneider

Date: 22:42:58 07/06/01

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Hi,

On July 06, 2001 at 15:04:14, John Wentworth wrote:

>To all the chess developers, how many hours of coding did it take you to write
>your first program from the ground up?

depends how long you wait before writing your second chessprogram :-)

>Did you develop your own book?

Yes, but I would not do that again. Try to reuse as much as possible from
Winboard or any other GUI with an open interface.

>
>I am currently working on one now and have only about 9 - 12 hours of coding
>time spent.  I am at the point where I can play back and forth with the program
>until it runs out of book (modified Crafty book). I also spent time developing a
>nice looking GUI that displays the moves made. Just trying to gage the total
>time it will take me to complete it. Thanks for your input.


Frank




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