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Subject: Re: Chess Programming Terms

Author: Aaron Tay

Date: 04:12:53 10/18/03

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On October 18, 2003 at 05:20:08, adam ruiz wrote:

>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?..

LOL, because it's not complete, I was playing with it last year, and forgot
about it. I'm not a chess programmer so I'm just the right person to mislead
everyone :) Seriously though,, I was planning to add quotes directly from some
sites and more importantly the url for more imformation .

Time to update it ,if Dann is going to start posting the url all around the
internet though.

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

These are good.

Aaron



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