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Subject: Re: Shareware chess?

Author: Dann Corbit

Date: 12:42:03 11/20/98

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On November 20, 1998 at 15:20:00, wayne johnson wrote:
>Lately, I have been trying understand how p-chess(5.1) with it's three Hex
>opening book files influence it's decision to make a move when you are playing
>it with an unknown opening. It seems to load an opening only to 12 half moves
>from one of it's files. What do the other two files do?????
>
>It also seems to choose a move just as slow on an xt as it does on a 133mz
>machine.
>
>It's so old--how do I get a registered copy?
>Is the registered copy also the same way?
Don't know much about p-chess, sorry.

>I know there are quite a few other better supposed AI programs--What Are they--
>Where are they??
You can find them with a web search.  SAL is one example.  NN chess programs are
pretty infantile right now.  Of course, if you consider Alpha/Beta pruning as AI
(and in a real sense it is) then almost all chess programs are AI programs.

>Do they have source code available?
Some do, some don't.  You can get the source for SAL, for example.  Several
others also.  On standard PC hardware, AI chess programs are not that great.
Free programs like Crafty and Phalanx will whip their tails.  Even GNU chess
will beat them.

Look at the web links available from this site.  You will find lots of
interesting stuff.



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