Author: martin fierz
Date: 14:52:49 01/05/02
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On January 04, 2002 at 08:13:38, Shane Bolster wrote: >I am a final year student in Ireland and as part of my graduation i need to >develop a very simple chess game using LabView programming, but this is my first >year using this programming language so im not able to get it started. If there >is anybody that can help me i would really appreciate it as time is running out >for me. I have a very complicated chess game that i found on the Internet which >was written in LabView, but i cannot understand it as there is alot in it. If >anyone wants to see this complicated chess game i can send it on to you. >Thanks, >Shane who on earth is the the guy who wants you to write a chess program in labview?? i use labview a lot (i'm a physicist, postdoc). there is nothing like labview to create programs which you can use in a lab - for some reason it's called LABview - you get a user interface with a few clicks, the data acquisition with one small box, and the data analysis with another box. i love labview! i also program checkers, but in C. writing a chess program in labview seems like trying to eat a banana with knife and fork to me - i know there are people who do it that way, but it sure seems awfully stupid to me. go to your supervisor whoever he/she is, and tell him that you are either going to program chess in C, or something else in labview. this is just ridiculous! if he doesnt believe you, the best thing you can do is to get any winboard engine, read the winboard protocol, and use labview to write a front-end to it. which still is pretty ridiculous, but not so much. labview is for data acquisition, analysis and display. not for chess. cheers martin
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