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Subject: Re: Designing Chess Programs

Author: Russell Reagan

Date: 12:44:26 06/24/02

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On June 24, 2002 at 10:15:34, Adrian Smith wrote:

>How many people actually sit down and write some form of algorithm design for
>their chess programs?
>Or do you prefer to sit down and just code?

When I first started my attempts to write a chess program, I just sat down and
coded. After starting over many, many times because I reached a point where I
wish I had done something different from the beginning, I decided to start
designing and planning.

So now I do a lot of "pre-thinking" about how I'm going to implement this or
that, and how it's going to work with other things. It helps more than you would
think. I've made it farther than ever before on this version and I haven't had
any inclinations to just start over yet, so I think it's working.

Russell



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