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Subject: Re: These days anybody can write a chess program.Johan de Koning [interview]

Author: Adam Oellermann

Date: 05:06:26 08/29/01

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He's right, too. Some of my colleagues are interested in my chess program, but
when I suggested they write their own, they said it was beyond them. To prove a
point, I hacked together some ugly VB which plays chess. It doesn't play at all
well, but was put together in an evening while watching TV without any reference
to any other source code. Given the accessibility of VB, I guess this means that
literally nearly anybody can write a chess program. There is a relatively strong
chess engine implemented in VB (LarsenVB), and even a Perl chess engine (not
very strong, but that's not the point). This stuff is becoming more and more
accessible, and I think it's great.

On the other hand, writing a *strong* chess program seems a little trickier.

- Adam



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