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Subject: Re: why not just write your own?

Author: Dan Honeycutt

Date: 12:37:27 06/09/04

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On June 09, 2004 at 14:10:01, Andrew Wagner wrote:

>On June 09, 2004 at 13:39:00, Dan Honeycutt wrote:
>
>>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.
>
>Hmm, that's right about where I am with Trueno. Do you have an account on ICC?
>Would be neat to do a little match. Andrew

I don't have an ICC account - will have to get around to that sometime.  We both
played in Olivier's Chess War V E but we didn't get paired.  I'm sure one day
our paths will cross.

Dan H.




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