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Subject: Re: What is the best chess program made in Turbo Pascal ??

Author: Stan Arts

Date: 03:07:47 11/05/04

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On November 04, 2004 at 22:22:56, Tanya Deborah wrote:

>
>Hi!
>
>Is Turbo Pascal a good choice to design a good chess program?
>
>Can somebody please tell me, what is the best chess program made in Turbo
>Pascal?
>
>
>Thanks in advance.
>Tanya Deborah

Hi,

Andreas Herrmann (He wrote the chessprograms Holmes, and Black bishop.) used
to have a page with all Pascal and Delphi written chessprograms, unfortunatly
it seems to be down at the moment. http://wbholmes.de
Hopefully it will be back online soon.

Otherwise, my own chessprograms (My current Neurosis, and my previous program
S(Stan's)Chess. ) are written in Pascal. You can find them here.:
http://www.geocities.com/tasteofinsanity81/stanspage
I use the Free Pascal compiler, which is very close to Turbo Pascal, only a
more modern version of it. (32 bit, and support for many platforms.)
http://www.freepascal.org/  And there are some other moderrn free compilers
very close to Turbo Pascal.
(By the way, on request I do not mind to share Neurosis's sourcecode.
(Unfortunatly it will be of little use I guess, it is entirely in dutch and
internaly works different from anything else you've ever seen.) )

Yes, Pascal is an excelent choice to write a chessprogram in. Depending on
what you are used to. If you are used to C, then you will probably not like
Pascal, but otherwise, Pascal is usually better read-able, and just as
powerfull and fast. (People programming in C, C++ usually claim all sorts of
slowdowns for writing something in Pascal, but this is not true, especially
depending on your experience. (If you start to know the language well, and
stick to a compiler for a while so you know what it is good at and what not
and it's switches.) )

Greetings
Stan



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