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Subject: Re: PDF - How Rebel Plays Chess

Author: Frank Phillips

Date: 09:42:07 09/05/04

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On September 04, 2004 at 18:15:07, Stuart Cracraft wrote:

>On August 31, 2004 at 19:14:48, Alessandro Scotti wrote:
>
>>For those who cannot access Ed's page at
>>http://members.home.nl/matador/chess840.htm (e.g. with Mozilla) or just want a
>>document that prints nicely here is a PDF transcription of the page content:
>>
>>http://www.ascotti.org/programming/chess/How%20Rebel%20Plays%20Chess.pdf
>>
>>I have manually composed/reformatted all diagrams and code to make sure they
>>print ok, keeping the document layout 99.9% faithful to the original. Please let
>>me know if you find errors or have suggestions etc.
>>
>>Enjoy! :-)
>
>If it makes any difference, I consider his comments to be the most
>signficant single collection the history of computer chess in
>regards to help for the computer chess programmer. He goes into
>more nitty-gritty detail than anyone else, and he is a commercial
>programmer and I believe it was a world microcomputer champion,
>no? I know of no other such example of the combination of champ,
>detail, and commercial, all collected in a single cohesive whole.
>
>Stuart

Agreed.

We should not forget Bob Hyatt, of course.  The only element missing in your
list of attributes not applicable to Bob would seem to be 'commercial'.

Frank



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