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

Author: Steve Maughan

Date: 06:01:42 11/05/04

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Andrey,

>IMHO, the strongest engine is Delfi.

I agree

>I think every chess program made in Delphi is really written and debugged in
>Turbo Pascal (or Borland Pascal) and finally compiled in Delphi for speed.

I've never heard of this.  I don't know anyone who would write a program in
Turbo Pascal then finally compile in Delphi.  What's the point - Delphi has a
perfectly good development environment.

>Turbo Pascal does not optimize the code. As a result, the exe file is 1.5-2
>times slower than compiled in Microsoft Visual C++ or in Delphi.
>The DOS graphic is poor in comparison with Windows.
>However, Turbo Pascal has more possibilities for debugging than MSVC or
>Delphi.

I disagree - why would a +10 year old development environment be better than
Delphi?

Steve



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