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Subject: Re: Experience of chess programmers

Author: Landon Rabern

Date: 12:25:54 06/27/03

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On June 27, 2003 at 12:41:04, Russell Reagan wrote:

>I'm interested to learn what the programming experience is of people who have
>written strong chess programs.
>
>For instance, what did the commercial engine authors do before they were full
>time chess programmers? Were they professional programmers in another field?
>
>What about people who have written strong amateur programs? Do they work as
>professional programmers, or have professional programming experience?
>
>Even if you don't consider your engine strong, I'd still like to hear what kind
>of programming experience you have, even if it's, "I learned QBasic in high
>school." That's where I started :)
>
>Thanks,
>Russell

Started playing with Pascal in 7th grade.  Learned C later in highschool and
then in college took some CS classes.  That's about it, for the most part I have
never used anything in Betsy that I learned from classes in college.

Regards,

Landon



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