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Subject: Re: Chess Books (Russell Reagan - opinion of "Elements of Positional.."?

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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