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Subject: Re: Any Recommendations for Intro Text?

Author: James Swafford

Date: 18:37:18 01/19/00

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On January 19, 2000 at 21:28:15, Pete Galati wrote:

>On January 19, 2000 at 20:38:09, James Swafford wrote:
>
>>On January 18, 2000 at 20:58:38, Dann Corbit wrote:
>>
>>>On January 18, 2000 at 18:54:41, Jeff Lischer wrote:
>>>
>>>>I am thinking about trying to write my own basic chess playing program. I have
>>>>downloaded the TSCP source code as well as that for Crafty. They are pretty well
>>>>commented, but I could still use some basic information to help get me started.
>>>>Does anyone have any recommendations for introductory texts or papers?
>>>
>>>I would also recommend the sources for Phalanx as it sits squarely between those
>>>two extremes (crafty/tscp).  It also plays a mean game of chess.
>>>
>>>The best source of chess programming information is postscript papers gathered
>>>from the net.  I don't think that there are any good books out there.  Or does
>>>anybody know of one?
>>
>>Didn't Ernst Heinz just finish a book?  I don't remember
>>the name or URL, but you may be able to find it by fishing
>>around the DarkThought site...
>
>Wow, well, goto: http://supertech.lcs.mit.edu/~heinz/node1.html  for a page all
>about the book.
>
>Pete

Yes, that's the one... thank you Pete. :-)




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