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Subject: Re: I am a sixteen yearold, novice programmer. I am looking for a chess

Author: Pat King

Date: 08:17:02 08/05/98

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On August 05, 1998 at 07:29:58, Tom Kerrigan wrote:

>On August 04, 1998 at 18:07:47, Pat King wrote:...

>So is it safe to say that speed increases as you approach a non-object-oriented
>state?

No, I will not indict the entire OO paradigm on the ancedotal evidence of one
amatuer hacker :)


>The only exame of Pascal chess source code I can think of is CHESS 0.5,
>published in 1978. Compare this to GNU Chess, Crafty, TSCP, etc.

A recent example is "K C Chess" in Turbo Pascal, at
http://ccnga.uwaterloo.ca/~csbruce/CHESS/Chess.html

Borland also included a pretty good pascal chess program
as an example in BP 7.0

Links to source for many languages and platforms, as well as general chess
programming info, can be found at
http://www.xs4all.nl/~verhelst/chess/programming.html


>Taking the "clean room" approach to some things may be good, but with computer
>chess, I think "not reinventing the wheel" approach is appropriate. 50 years of
>progress shouldn't be ignored.

And that progress includes lotsa languages invented since C ;)

>Cheers,
>Tom

Cheers back at ya'

Pat



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