Computer Chess Club Archives


Search

Terms

Messages

Subject: Symbolic: A doomed effort, or it's time to get my lead-lined jockstrap

Author: Steven Edwards

Date: 10:20:00 02/16/04


From: Robert Hyatt (hyatt@crafty.cis.uab.edu)
Subject: Re: Chess in LISP
Newsgroups: rec.games.chess.computer
Date: 1997/04/07

Stefan Hahndel (hahndel@informatik.tu-muenchen.de) wrote:

: In article <5i4bpe$or0@juniper.cis.uab.edu>, hyatt@crafty.cis.uab.edu (Robert
Hyatt) writes:
: [...]
: |> Nope.  for the humor impaired, or non-computer types, LISP is *not* the
: |> language of choice for a chess program.  Hard to read.  very slow.
: |> Interpreted, even on the old "lisp" machines that were built for a
: |> while...
: Dear Bob,
: why not ?
: You think only about a alpha-beta style chess program and brute force.
: Is really absolutely impossible that someone will write an "intelligent",
: knowledge-based (or some other approach) chess program in lisp in future ?

no.  but they will probably be using a computer that is powered by
electrical energy produced by a self-sustaining nuclear fusion reaction.

:)



This page took 0.03 seconds to execute

Last modified: Thu, 15 Apr 21 08:11:13 -0700

Current Computer Chess Club Forums at Talkchess. This site by Sean Mintz.