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Subject: Re: Programming difficulties

Author: scott farrell

Date: 19:50:30 01/13/03

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On January 13, 2003 at 19:14:14, Luis Smith wrote:
Luis,

My chompster engine is Java.

It is reasonable strength (sfarrellc on ICC).

I am entering it into CCT5 tourney this month.

Chompster is rotated bit-board based - and does about 100Knps in the mid game on
my celeron1.5ghz, it gives away a speed factor of about 6x-10x against major
engines, and about 2.5x against slower engines.

If you have any questions, or need any help, please ask.

Scott

>Hello everyone,
>
>  About 1 year ago I started playing against chess programs.  I wondered how
>someone could produce such a thing.  I did a few google searches and was led
>here.  After learning that chess engines were created in C++ and other
>programming languages I really wanted to write my own, but I never could because
>I was never able to afford the software needed.  About 2 weeks ago I bought MS
>C++ and was working through their tutorials.  I found it very hard learning the
>C++ language and essentially quit.
>
>  After compiling my first very basic Java program at school, I decided to give
>it another shot hoping it would come easier this time.  After about 3 days of
>solid studying I feel I have not progressed.  Should I give up?  Or are there
>easier tutorials out there?  Maybe programming isn't for everyone but I really
>have the desire to create an engine.  Opinions?  Or maybe someone could give me
>some info on some other programming languages.  Any books or online tutorials
>anyone could reccomend would be great.
>
>Thx in Advance
>
>Reguards
>Luis



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