Author: Bob Green
Date: 17:10:43 08/29/01
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I can only laugh at myself reading the ability of you in writing a chess program in an evening while watching the TV. I think of myself as a fairly accomplished programmer. I decided to write a game program (albiet not chess.) I'm dorking around with this very part time, but I have easily spent: 20 hours of reading searching papers and chess program research on the WWW 20 hours of looking through source code of TSCP, Crafty and others 30 hours of building a stupid program in Java 20 hours of designing a smarter and faster one in C 20 hours doing the move generation and _very_ simple UI 2 hours writing a very simple eval routine 2 hours writing a negaScout routine 10 hours getting it right :) 10 more hours proving it to myself and it still plays pretty lousy (although occationally beats me now.) While _anyone_ can build a chess program, the first time in you really gotta want to do it! I guess since I don't have a TV this is my problem - buying one would have knocked off weeks of development! Bob Green
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