Author: Omid David Tabibi
Date: 20:16:09 12/13/02
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On December 13, 2002 at 20:55:59, Arshad F. Syed wrote: >I just purchased the book 'Scaleable Search in Computer Chess'. It starts off >well giving a good overview of the main topics and advances in modern CC, but it >falters badly towards the end. There are no less than 50 pages dedicated to game >results and scores. I am getting a migraine just trying to figure out who the >target audience could possibly be for these drab game scorecards?? It seems like >the author was trying to market his thesis! With all those test results bundled >in, at first glance that is what it looks like - an excellent thesis. > >As if that was not enough, the price is at a premium - $55 for approx. 300 >pages. Darn, even those C++ bibles with 1200+ pages cost less and come with a CD >too. Hopefully, some day the GOM (Grand Old Man) of Computer Chess, Dr. Hyatt, >comes out with something of his own. Here is what I would like to see: > >All major topics covered - Alpha-Beta, Trans. Tables, the whole 9 yards. >Introduction to AI - specifically machine learning as applied to Chess. >Advanced programming recommendations as applied to chess - multi-threading, >multi-processing etc. > Now let me voice my *personal* opinion. I think that Ernst Heinz's collection of papers (the book) are one of the best computer chess research conducted in the past decade. I appreciate reading his papers and especially his writing style. >Regards, >Arshad
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