Author: Bruce Moreland
Date: 01:40:55 12/15/02
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On December 14, 2002 at 09:20:13, Alessandro Damiani wrote: >On December 13, 2002 at 21:44:33, Arshad F. Syed wrote: > >>On December 13, 2002 at 21:27:18, Alessandro Damiani wrote: >> >>>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. >>> >>>You were not forced to buy the thesis. I am not forced to answer your post. >>> >>>Alessandro >> >>I didn't force anyone to read my post. Like it or ignore it! > >That's exactly what I wrote. But you didn't get the message between the lines: >you were not forced to buy the book like I was not forced to answer your post. >Clear now? > >Alessandro You are being difficult. He bought the book sight unseen, expecting a treat, and he didn't like it. I can understand this reaction. There is not a lot of computer chess literature that is dense with really useful stuff. You end up spending three of four times what a mass-market hard-back would cost, and when you get it, it has one article that you think is really good. Ernst has some ideas and he published them. That's a good thing. It's better than anyone else has done in the past five years. But still, the amount of interesting stuff out there is not very great. bruce
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