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Subject: Re: Murderhole v2 (my 1st program in C) completes first ever game.

Author: Dan Honeycutt

Date: 09:38:52 06/25/04

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On June 24, 2004 at 10:54:45, Eric Oldre wrote:

>
>Last night I got my new engine to complete it's first game where it played the
>entire game and properly announced the result of the game at the end. As I said
>in the subject, this is the first non "hello world" program I've ever written in
>C so it is kind of a milestone for me. I thought I'd just post the PGN here to
>record the moment. Hopefully one day, I'll be able to look back at this post and
>laugh at these humble beginnings.
>
>Additionally, I think that I will also try and come up with a different name
>than murderhole 2 for the new engine. I think I'll release the source of
>Murderhole 1 eventually, and I would want to make clear that they are 2
>completely different programs. I think the source could be valuable for those
>people who were like me a few months ago and wanted to write a chess engine, but
>really were most comfortable in VB.Net. Anyone have thoughts on that?
>
Hi Eric:

I rather like the name murderhole.  I'm a believer in open source.  I see no
problem if murderhole 1 is VB and murderhole 2 is C.  Having the source to both
could help someone following in your footsteps who wants to start with VB and
later transition to C.

Dan H.



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