Author: Peter Kappler
Date: 22:13:19 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? If you want to write a chess program, your computer programming expertise is MUCH, MUCH more important than your chess expertise. If you write a search algorithm that is free of major bugs and give it even a crude evaluation function, it will easily surpass 1800 strength (at least at blitz). It won't play pretty positional chess, but you'll be amazed by its tactical strength. -Peter
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