Author: Len Spencer
Date: 16:00:46 09/14/98
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On September 13, 1998 at 11:34:17, Ed Panek wrote: > I was wondering, for fun, if everyone who has written a program for chess can >relate to us why and how they came up with tha names they did. Did you know >right away or didi you have other names as ideas also? > > >Thanks Ed I had chosen Skunk because the original version really stunk up the chessboard. For me it started out as an experiment in Atari BASIC just to try some ideas out (not all chess-related). For not even looking at its opponent's reply (except for checking moves, to determine checkmate), it still played a somewhat passable game for an absolute beginner, and even surprised me with some of its moves, but it was still abysmally SLOW. I mean 6 to 10 minutes per move. Hopefully I can have a PC version, with some lookahead, playing by the end of the year (provided I actually get some time to work on it!).
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