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Subject: Re: I'm new to chess programming... where should I start?

Author: Bruce Moreland

Date: 23:08:46 09/10/99

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On September 10, 1999 at 23:06:27, Pete Galati wrote:

>The last time someone recommended a book "How Computers Play Chess" by David
>Levy and Monty Newborn, it turned out to be out of print! But if you go to the
>"resource center" there's a lot of good links. I've got a few things collected
>on my web page at http://members.xoom.com/avochess/avochess.htm but the resource
>center probably has many more than I do. I think somewhere in there there's a
>link with lists of publications.
>
>A good small program that pretty much only comes as code is Tom Kerrigan's TSCP,
>there's allot of links going to Tom's page (I have a link to it) is a good thing
>to get hold of for a code example.

"Out of print" is a permanent problem when trying to find books on computer
chess, almost all of the books on the subject are out of print.

Used book stores will often surprise you, they'll sometimes have a book on this
subject.  Also, some school libraries might have a few.  And there is always
amazon.com.

The Levy book has been in print more recently than most, it may be fairly easy
to find.

bruce



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