Author: Dann Corbit
Date: 00:46:56 06/14/02
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On June 13, 2002 at 23:19:02, Pham Minh Tri wrote: >On June 13, 2002 at 15:07:25, Dann Corbit wrote: > >>On June 13, 2002 at 14:45:06, stuart taylor wrote: >>[snip] >>I think Uri has taken a very wise approach. He spent a great deal of time >>optimizing a move generator. This is the heart of a chess program. A program >>that has everything else excellent, but an average move generator can become >>strong but not a superstar, because it will become a bottleneck at some point. >[snip] >> >>However, I think Uri's approach is a very sound one. Start with a solid >>foundation and build upon that. Take incremental steps towards a goal. Since >>he is also an excellent chess player, I expect that he can insert special >>knowledge into his program and know when it is doing something awful (not always >>as easy as it sounds for us patzers). > >Do you suggest and encourage newbies spend their first few years on move >generators only? No. I suggest that first they should read some chess literature. Then they should play with other people's programs. Try to make them faster. Then settle on a design and write it from scratch. But I have not written a world-beater engine so why should anyone listen to me? ;-)
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