Author: Dan Honeycutt
Date: 10:39:00 06/09/04
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On June 09, 2004 at 10:57:40, Anthony Cozzie wrote: >On June 09, 2004 at 06:32:00, Gopikrishna wrote: > >>Has anyone tried to compile Gerbil? When I tried to compile it in MSVC I am >>getting the following error, >>fatal error C1083: Cannot open include file: 'gproto.h': No such file or >>directory. I even tried to include that file in my project and compiling but >>still that error is occuring.So please help me.Thanks. > >Why don't you just read up on the algorithms and write something? If you use >piece-lists rather than bitboards you should be able to get something working in >a month tops (searching 4 ply, but oh well). > >I don't understand all these people that insist on starting from someone else's >code. Algorithm descriptions are *always* easier to understand than code. > >anthony When I started I learned a lot by single stepping Gerbil and other programs. To do that you have to compile them. When I felt like I understood what was going on, I started with a blank slate and wrote my own 4 ply searcher. I've made steady improvements and it now searches 5 plys. Dan H.
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