Author: Andreas Herrmann
Date: 04:37:28 06/28/03
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I have started with Basic on a C64 in 1983 during my military time as a hobby. One year later i have switched to Turbo Pascal (3.0) on a C128. And again a halv or a full year later on my first PC, a commodore PC20 II (very expensive at that time), i have bought Turbo Pascal for DOS. In the mid to late 80's i have tryd to program my first chess program, but i havn't any idea how to do it. So i have programmed a few other programs and games like a Sokoban clone. In a computer science study from 1988 to 1990 i have then also learnd Fortran 77, but i have never developed bigger applications in Fortran later. My favourite programming language was further on Turbo Pascal. Then in my first job after the computer science study, i have developed, several statistic software applications. After reading some books about chess programming and the help of the internet, i have started 1997 a second try to develope a chess program. The result was my first DOS chess program ChessFiz, with pure AlphaBeta and without Hash,Nullmove and so on, but with a simple own GUI and Auto232 interface. 1999 i have then entered a job as a Delphi programmer (without any knowledge about Delphi :). But in a few weeks i have learnd Delphi very well, because Delphi is Object Pascal and there is not a big difference to Turbo Pascal. Then i have deleted my DOS GUI from my chess program and made a few other changes to get a Win32 console application with Delphi. A bit later i have implemented then the WB protocoll and made in June 2000 my first version of my Winboard engine, renamed to Holmes, public. So i'm now working on this engine since about 3 years, ok with some bigger pauses from a halv to a full year several times. It's a nice hobby, but chess programming is totally different from programming in a job. Andreas
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