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. :)
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