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Subject: Re: Japanese & Chinese & Chess Programming

Author: Aaron Tay

Date: 12:40:56 08/03/01

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On August 03, 2001 at 15:10:11, leonid wrote:

>On August 03, 2001 at 14:28:42, Pekka Karjalainen wrote:
>
>>On August 03, 2001 at 13:03:40, leonid wrote:
>>
>>>On August 02, 2001 at 13:22:43, Dan Andersson wrote:

<snip>

>>  Since chess is not very popular in Japan, I would presume there is very little of interest published in Japanese about the game, or about chess programming specifically.  Look at the Elo list and count the number of native Japanese IMs and GMs.  Can you find any?


>I hardly can recognize Japanese names but only some Chinese. Even Chinese names
>I do recognize better when they written in Chinese characters. Still my Chinese
>is not good enough to read something about chess programming. The only  things
>that I was able to read until now are books about grammars printed in Chinese.
>

I can read Chinese.But yes I expect it's far more difficult to read technical
stuff in Chinese. Try searching google and limiting it to chinese [traditional
or simplified] language sites..


>>>If somebody could give idea about the same thing but for Chinese, it will be
>>>equally interesting to read.


>>Strong chess players exist now in China too and the game can be said to be
>>flourishing there, as you probably well know.  However, I don't know of >>anything significant that is done in chess programming.  There are some >>Chinese programs that play other games at least.
>
>Problem with finding on the Web what is written about chess programming, in
>Chinese, is Chinese writing. You must have special driver or even keyboard to
>write any word. With Spanish or German this problem is almost non existent.

Isn't there   the program called Northstar communicator
http://www.njstar.com.au/ that allows you to type chinese using a normal
keyboard.I never used it before, but  it's pretty popular here.






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