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Subject: Re: "How Computers play chess" by Dr Levy

Author: Bob Durrett

Date: 11:54:54 10/23/02

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On October 23, 2002 at 12:46:32, José Antônio Fabiano Mendes wrote:

>On October 23, 2002 at 01:58:12, Omid David wrote:
>
>>On October 23, 2002 at 01:57:29, Omid David wrote:
>>
>>>On October 23, 2002 at 00:26:28, Nagendra Singh Tomar wrote:
>>>
>>>>On October 22, 2002 at 17:28:35, Robert Hyatt wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>On October 22, 2002 at 03:53:33, Nagendra Singh Tomar wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>>Does anybody know if the book "How Computers play chess" by Dr Levy is still in
>>>>>>print. I am not finding it at my place.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>tomar
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>It is way beyond out of date.  You might try Schaeffer's book, or any of the
>>>>>other
>>>>>more recent books on computer chess....
>>>>
>>>>Are you talking of "One Jump Ahead" by Jonathan Schaeffer ?
>>>>
>>>>But that is on checkers, Is'nt it ?
>>>>
>>>>regds
>>>>tomar
>>>
>>>Computers, Chess, and Cognition, T.A. Marsland and J. Schaeffer (Eds.), pp.
>>>111--130. Springer, ISBN 0-387-97415-6/3-540-97415-6.
>>
>>Sorry, remove the pp.
>
>Please see ==> http://www.cs.ualberta.ca/research/library/0-387-97415-6.php
>                 Abstract from the Back Cover:
>Computers, Chess, and Cognition is an excellent depiction of current
>developments in computer chess, a rapidly advancing area of artificial
>intelligence research. This volume, which traces historical highlights in the
>field and reviews progress in research over the past two decades, encompasses
>descriptions of the working of some major chess programs, discussions of
>exciting new research ideas, an excellent review of tree searching methods, a
>philosophical discussion of the relationship of computer game playing to
>artificial intelligence, and an introduction to computer Go as an important new
>research area.
>
>This book is intended for students and professionals in the computer science
>community. The chapters have been carefully edited to enhance the volume's
>appeal to a wide readership, and the inclusion of a complete index and extensive
>bibliography make this book a valuable reference work. A foreward by Ken
>Thompson, co-inventor of the UNIX operating system and author of the
>World Champion Belle chess program, is included.
>
>This book has been written for telecommunications and data communications
>professionals and students involved in design and performance evaluation of
>communication networks and protocols.


An interesting book.  I will probably purchase and study it.

The only possible turnoff is the copyright date; 1990.  A lot has changed in the
last twelve years.

True?

Bob D.



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