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Subject: Re: Good chess programming sites/books?

Author: Pete Galati

Date: 15:52:49 06/25/99

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On June 25, 1999 at 14:00:42, Dan Homan wrote:

>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

Unfortunatly "How Computers Play Chess"  by David Levy and Monty Newborn seems
to be out of print. You could try a book search, maybe Amazon, or one that I've
used to find a book that I still haven't read even though they found it, is
Harvest Book Search ph # 1-800- 563-1222

Pete



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