Author: Andrei Fortuna
Date: 04:36:26 07/11/03
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On July 10, 2003 at 12:42:50, Keith Evans wrote: >On July 10, 2003 at 04:56:45, Andrei Fortuna wrote: > >>On July 10, 2003 at 01:29:25, Keith Evans wrote: >> >>>Have any chess programmers here read Dan Heisman's "Elements of Positional >>>Evaluation - How Chess Pieces Get Their Power"? >>> >>>I believe that in the preface he says "The theory should provide new insights >>>into chess annotation, teaching, and quiescent position evaluation for chess >>>computer algorithms." >>> >>>I don't know if any chess programmers have found it useful. >> >>I found no reviews of it on the net. >>And on Amazon it is out of stock. >>Both makes it not an option for my list. >> >>But the quote you make sounds like it might be an interesting book :) >> >>Andrei > >You can read a little bit about that book at: >http://mywebpages.comcast.net/danheisman/Events_Books/book_descriptions.html > >If you can log into ICC then you can ask Dan about it on his "Ask the >Renaissance Man" chess.fm internet radio show. > >The big question for me is did any chess programmers find it useful? It may be >that Dan thinks it's potentially useful for programmers, but that it doesn't >translate well to computer chess. Russell Reagan has a quote about that book on >the page, so maybe he could comment. Thanks for bringing this book to my attention, at $8.95 I'll risk ordering it, it might prove useful to me. I see little comments on it on the web and no comments here on CCC, so I am a bit suspicious, but I'll risk buying it anyway. The subject is of much interest to me. Andrei
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