Author: Tanya Deborah
Date: 19:58:37 11/05/04
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On November 05, 2004 at 06:07:47, Stan Arts wrote: >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 Thank for your information and your nice page. I download all your programs. I am writing my first program in Pascal now, and I like it :-) Thank you very much! Regards! Tanya
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