Author: Joel
Date: 19:26:59 11/25/03
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Hey Ricardo, An approach that worked well for me: firstly i just read what minimax and alpha beta were, and then hacked up a chess engine off the top of my head...didnt take too long, about 3 weeks, few hours every day or so... this beast regurlarly searched 5-6 plies in the middle game at long time controls...luck based move ordering! :) why i took this approach was that i wanted to get a practical feel for the problems involved in making a chess engine...after doing this, i was able to design my next chess engine from scratch with a better sense of what i actually wanted to achieve (perhaps more than what you get after just reading someelse's source code)... maybe a simple hacked up engine might be best if you are not yet a good programmer...you will definately improve a lot after you work your way through the problems writing a chess engine throws at you. Joel
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