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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