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Subject: Re: Chess program using functional languages?

Author: Ian Osgood

Date: 22:03:49 04/15/03

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On April 15, 2003 at 20:57:14, Dan Andersson wrote:

> Functional languages and search is an old match. This is one great paper from
>1984:
>http://www.math.chalmers.se/~rjmh/Papers/whyfp.html
>
>MvH Dan Andersson

Thanks, Dan!

That was exactly what I was looking for.  Recursive game searches should make a
nice proving ground for functional methods, such as lazy evaluation.  I'm
surprised I haven't found mention of anyone implementing this functional
algorithm in a real chess program.  After all, functional programmers love to
brag about how much better their favorite languages are.  (Maybe making a real
evaluation function is too daunting.)

Ian



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