Author: Bob Green
Date: 19:53:57 08/30/01
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On August 29, 2001 at 22:56:54, Uri Blass wrote: >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 I have been out of TV for a while...is this on a cable channel or can I get this from one of the major networks?? BG :)
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