Author: Uri Blass
Date: 19:56:54 08/29/01
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On August 29, 2001 at 20:10:43, Bob Green wrote: >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 Yes You should only watch the right movie that shows you the source code in the screen of the TV line after line) Uri
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