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Subject: Re: Good chess programming sites/books?

Author: Dan Homan

Date: 11:00:42 06/25/99

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On June 25, 1999 at 12:47:38, Rob Shultz wrote:

>I'm looking for sites/books that would be good sources for someone who is
>interested in trying to write their own chess program.  I need sources that
>assume the programmer knows nothing!  To many time they assume you are an
>advanced programmer.  I guess this project would be about learning to program
>WHILE writing a chess program.  Any and all suggestions are welcome!
>
>Thanks,
>Rob

"How Computers Play Chess"  by David Levy and Monty Newborn is an excellent
place to start.  No programming knowledge or experience is necessary to
understand it.  In fact, it is mostly a story of the development of
computer chess.  There is also enough practical information there to get
you started on designing your own program.

Of course, having programming experience would be helpful when reading
the book because you could more easily see how to turn the ideas into
algorithms.  However, you can get a lot out of it without any
programming knowledge.

 - Dan



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