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Subject: Re: Experience of chess programmers

Author: Peter Stayne

Date: 13:29:45 06/27/03

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I've only made my first steps toward building my engine, so FWIW:

Began programming at the age of 6 in '83 on a TI 99/4a computer in my 1st grade
classroom. Been programming ever since. Wrote a lot of Pascal/ASM graphics demos
in high school on 386's and 486's. Unfortunately, I was so wrapped up in my
personal programming endeavors that I was a terrible student then and only
finished part of College. Going back now to finish my degree (6 years later).
Doing web programming as my fulltime job.



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



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