Author: Dave Gomboc
Date: 13:27:10 04/07/99
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On April 07, 1999 at 12:10:20, Roberto Waldteufel wrote: >Hi all, > >I wonder how many here have programmed other games besides chess. Before I wrote >my chess program I cut my teeth on several games of gradually increasing >complexity until finally I felt ready to tackle chess. One of the most >interesting of these was checkers. In fact, I used bitboards for my first ever >attempt at checkers before knowing about their widespread use in chess, so when >I came to program chess I was naturally inclined to lean heavily in the >direction of bitboard representations of information. Recently I returned to my >old checkers program and rewrote it from scratch making use of many new things I >have learnt from programming chess, resulting in a strong program based on Aske >Plaat's MTDF algorithm. On 24 April there is to be a match between my program >and Nexus99, one of the top commercial checkers programs. I may even release my >own checkers program commercially in due course. >I think the same techniques that have proved themselves in computer chess are >applicable to several other games, such as Shogi, Go and of course checkers too. >I would be interested to hear if anyone else here has found the same to be true. >In particular, if anyone else has programmed checkers, it would be interesting >to "compare notes". > >Best wishes, >Roberto I haven't programmed checkers, but I talk virtually daily with someone who has. ;-) Are the top commercial programs in the same league as Chinook yet? Dave Gomboc
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