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Subject: Re: writing a chess program

Author: Dann Corbit

Date: 11:20:58 01/11/05

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On January 11, 2005 at 05:32:06, adam wilks wrote:

>can someone please tell me how i write a basic chess program , the language
>needed to write this, the essentials or backbone i need to include in the
>structure of the program. Any advice is wanted.Im a begiinaer and would like to
>start off and would appreciate some feedback.thank you.

These are the places to look first:
You need a postscript reader and gzip decompressor for this:
http://brick.bitpit.net/~marcelk/2002/marcelk-thesis.ps.gz

These are very good:
http://www.gamedev.net/reference/programming/features/chess1/
http://republika.pl/nesik/download//SomeAspectsOfChessProgramming.zip
http://www.brucemo.com/compchess/programming/index.htm
http://www.chessbrain.net/beowulf/theory.html
http://www.ics.uci.edu/~eppstein/180a/s97.html

Read everything before doing anything.

Start simple.  Most choices are not very important, but don't bother with
mini-max, go straight to alpha-beta.  The algorithm is just as simple and vastly
superior.



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