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Subject: Re: How Many Lines of Code in Source for Chess Engine?

Author: Russell Reagan

Date: 11:45:50 11/18/02

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On November 17, 2002 at 22:35:08, Andreas Guettinger wrote:

>Important is to go for small and easy targets at the beginning. Using 0x88 you
>can easily get a move generator within a week of about 1000 lines of code.

I wrote my bitboard move generator in one day, and spent another debugging it.
Of course, I spent quite a few years prior to that learning about computer
chess. So did it take 2 days or 2 years? Interesting question.

Russell



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