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Subject: Re: Chess Programming Terms

Author: adam ruiz

Date: 02:20:08 10/18/03

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On October 18, 2003 at 04:26:20, Dann Corbit wrote:

>On October 18, 2003 at 04:04:10, adam ruiz wrote:
>
>>
>> Hello all, i am new to chess programming and i am reading old posts because
>>probably most of my questions are already covered there. My problem is that
>>there is a lot of chess terms, and i am always asking myself "what is nullmove?"
>>or "what is fail low?" or "R=3?" so i wonder if there is a appendix about chess
>>terms or some glossary i can read. Is there a link or something (maybe a single
>>page) or perhaps some of you could write a list with a short description and
>>post it here. (i am not asking for explanation of algorytms on it, just "minor"
>>terms like: R, prunning, fail-low.. etc.)
>>
>> Thanks in advance!
>
>Probably better to start with this stuff:
>
>http://www.aarontay.per.sg/Winboard/glossary.html
>
 Why "blah blah blah blah blah" for a lot of terms?..

>http://www.brucemo.com/compchess/programming/
>
>http://www.chessbrain.net/beowulf/theory.html

 Thanks for the links.. i think i am  more or less in the same dilemma.



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