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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