Author: David Blackman
Date: 03:48:44 10/10/99
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On October 10, 1999 at 03:53:31, Lin Harper wrote: > Just wondering if it's possible to write a chess program (even > a simple one) in Qbasic. Yes. > Would it be worth the effort trying? It depends why you would want to. If you enjoy programming just for fun and you think a chess program would be an interesting project, then go for it. As for the programming language choice, Qbasic has a few limitations, but it is certainly good enough to write a program that plays reasonably good chess. If Qbasic is the language you know and love, then use it. > Failing this, can anyone give me a site where i can download a > superseded version of C++. I checked out the cost of one off the > shelf and did'nt like the price. Any help would be appreciated. There are plenty of free chess programs out there to download. Most are written in C. A few might be C++. A few are available only as binary programs. Look at the Computer Chess Resource Centre (link at the top of the page) to Computer Chess Links then to Freeware and Shareware Programs. Crafty (Bob Hyatt) is probably the best known and one of the strongest free programs. TSCP (Tom Kerrigan) is one of the smallest and easiest to understand. But many of the others are also interesting. If you want a commercial quality user interface with a slightly weakened chess engine, Rebel Decade is probably still out there for free (with no source code, only a DOS executable) but doesn't seem to be on the links page. Try a search engine. > Thanks. > Lin
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