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Subject: Re: General Q about chess programmers

Author: Uri Blass

Date: 22:11:44 01/15/03

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On January 16, 2003 at 00:15:24, Nathan Thom wrote:

>Im an amateur chess player (around 1300), but love to program interesting
>problems. It seems that most of the programmers here are all very highly rated
>chess players. Most chess programs beat me easily, so I thought it would be
>interesting to see if I could write a program that could beat me aswell.
>
>In peoples opinion, will it be hard for me to write a program that can play very
>well (say 1800+) even if it only uses my basic knowledge of chess?


Basic knowledge is more than enought to get 1800++
piece square table evaluation+alphabeta+check extensions is more than enough for
your purpose(you even do not need hash tables and null move pruning if your
target is only 1800++ and tscp is already at that level).

Uri



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