Author: Pete Galati
Date: 18:15:27 09/21/99
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On September 21, 1999 at 19:58:48, José Carlos wrote: >On September 21, 1999 at 16:01:47, Pete Galati wrote: > >>On September 21, 1999 at 12:45:00, Nicolas Carrasco wrote: >> >>>Thanks, >>> >>>I want to confess you that I can`t study Crafty, because it is for very advanced >>>chess programers! >> >>Crafty is also great for people like me who know even less probably about >>programming than you do, it's very well commented (I have not looked through it >>for a while though) and just about anything that you can think of, there's >>examples of it in Crafty >> >>I'd consider Crafty a great open book full of C code, it's hard to beat, and it >>plays a hell of a game of Chess too (v16.18 just smokes) >> >>Pete > > Yes, Crafty is very well commented, but it's still too complicated to start >with it. If my opinion insterest anyone, I'd recommend starting implementing the >code from very general (and sometimes stupid, at least mine :)) and writing a >super-simple chess program. That's the way you start understanding what's >happening all along the search tree. > Next task is improve it, always from abstract ideas. > When you have enough experience, then you're ready to study other people >programs. > If you don't start from the begining, it's true that you can write a strong >program from other people sources, but you will not be able to improve it much, >cause you won't understand the way the program works. > Just my opinion. > > José C. Are you José C. of the Averno program? I like Averno, it plays a good game of Chess, a very good first release. It's not very strong yet but it wins against me. Pete > > >> >>> >>>On September 21, 1999 at 09:34:25, Robert Hyatt wrote: >>> >>>>On September 21, 1999 at 00:51:01, Nicolas Carrasco wrote: >>>> >>>>>Dear guys, >>>>> >>>>>I only want to thank you for helping me, I hope one day I can help other or >>>>>maybe u. I also want to tell Tom Kerrigan, Bob Hyatt and all other guys that got >>>>>mad with me that I am sorry. >>>> >>>>I didn't "get mad with you". I only pointed out that most here aren't going >>>>to write code for you when it is alread publicly available. We help debug, >>>>we try to provide new ideas and new data, etc... >>>> >>>>But there simply isn't time to write a lot of code on demand... >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>>> >>>>>NOTE: UruChess website will be ONLINE SOON! And it will be the first Uruguayan >>>>>Chess Engine! >>>>> >>>>>Thanks to all, >>>>> >>>>>Especially to Tom Kerrigan(for doing TSCP), Brian Richardson, Bas Hamstra, José >>>>>Carlos >>>>> >>>>>THANKS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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