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Subject: Re: Plz dont laugh at me.....I am serious!!

Author: Edward Seid

Date: 06:13:27 12/28/01

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LarsenVB is a Winboard engine written in Visual Basic 6.  It's an Italian
engine, so I'm not sure how well commented the source code is, but you can visit
and download from the webpage at http://digilander.iol.it/larsenvb/.

For a general overview of what you are getting yourself into, check out the
6-part series of articles at gamedev.net.

http://www.gamedev.net/reference/articles/article1014.asp
http://www.gamedev.net/reference/articles/article1046.asp
http://www.gamedev.net/reference/articles/article1126.asp
http://www.gamedev.net/reference/articles/article1171.asp
http://www.gamedev.net/reference/articles/article1197.asp
http://www.gamedev.net/reference/articles/article1208.asp

I had the same idea as you, but I have so many other things that I'd like to get
done, that chess programming has been put on hold.  I'm not a programmer at all,
so I would have choosen VB as my platform also, as this seems to be the most
English-like (and thus non-programmer-friendly) of the higher languages.

I'm sure it is true that if your goal is to build the fastest and best program
possible, then C/C++ is preferred over VB.  However, for me, it would be more
for the intellectual challenge of doing it.

Since you are doing what I can only dream of doing right now, I'd be very
interested to be kept abreast of your progress on your pet project.

Best of luck.

ed seid

ed seid



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