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Subject: Re: How To Improve Your Chess: Write a Chess Program?!?

Author: Adam Oellermann

Date: 11:21:05 04/23/02

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On April 22, 2002 at 22:40:10, Ralph Patriquin wrote:

>I was just toying with this idea tonight. Would writing a chess program help
>your chess playing? I'm thinking in particular of a program that relies more
>on evaluation than brute force search. Would the act of explicitly writing
>out the algorithms so that a computer can understand, for example, weak squares
>or passed pawns help your play? Would this exercise help clarify your own
>thinking in actual play? Is it worth doing with chess improvement as the
>primary goal? Any comments from all who've been there are appreciated.
>
>Ralph


My chess certainly has improved from working on Blikskottel - but mainly from
loads of practice and watching how the "real" chess engines beat my engine up.

Cheers
Adam



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