Author: martin fierz
Date: 08:29:32 02/20/04
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On February 20, 2004 at 10:30:33, Eli Bendersky wrote: >On February 19, 2004 at 09:51:41, S J J wrote: > >> >> After reading posts for three years, I'm ready to make a first >>feeble attempt at a program. Odss are that checkers would be >>the best place to cut my teeth. >> >> Can anyone recommend any books or web pages that would give a >>novice programer a start to writing checkers and chess programs? >> >>Best Regards, >>Steve "No Moore's Law" J > >Please allow me to offer an advice from my personal experience: choose your >favorite game and code it. If you're an avid chess player (why else would >you read this group for 3 years ?!) don't go for checkers, othello etc, >since the chances that you won't stay loyal to it are high. my personal experience is quite different - i'm a good chess player and always wanted to write a chess program. instead, i started out with a connect 4 program in about 1993, continued with a checkers program 1996 and finally started a chess program in 2003. i admit that i have stopped working on connect 4, but that is mainly because there is not much left to prove there - the programs solve the game completely in under an hour. i have never played a real serious game of checkers in my whole life, and still i wrote a very strong checkers program, stuck with it for 7 years, and enjoyed doing it. of course it has taken a back seat now that i have a chess program, but i still work on it occasionally. cheers martin >If you want to start with chess, a shameless plug on my behalf is to offer >you to take a look at my Jamca project - free documentation and GPL code >for a chess playing program - developed and released on-the-fly (still very >incomplete): > >www.geocities.com/spur4444/prog/jamca/jamca.html > >Eli
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