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Subject: Re: Xeroxing chess books?

Author: Jeremiah Penery

Date: 17:16:26 01/27/00

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On January 27, 2000 at 20:00:46, Tom Kerrigan wrote:

>On January 27, 2000 at 17:20:04, Robert Hyatt wrote:
>
>>On January 27, 2000 at 13:24:17, Tom Kerrigan wrote:
>>
>>>I'm thinking about designing a chess engine for an FPGA. It will be for a class
>>>next semester.
>>>
>>>At this point, I need more information about such a project. How much has been
>>>published about the design of Belle/DT/DB? Where can I find what has been
>>>published? (Hopefully on the web, but I doubt it...)
>>>
>>>I will probably need an FPGA with an on-board microcontroller and some memory.
>>>Is anybody with FPGA experience able to reccomend such a beast? =)
>>>
>>>-Tom
>>
>>
>> I think the book "Computers Chess and Cognition" had a full chapter written
>>by Ken.  I am not certain however as I am not at the office.  Important details
>>might be hard to find although his move generation algorithm was well known
>>and well-explained...
>
>I e-mailed Ken and he told me that the best resource would be "Advances in
>Computer Chess 3."
>
>After doing a handful of web searches, I realize that I don't know how to get
>either book.
>
>Maybe it would be possible for somebody to send me Xerox copies of this stuff?
>Or give me an idea of how to get the books.

You can always try Amazon.com.  I saw that they had "Computers, Chess, and
Cognition", and several of the "Advances in Computer Chess" series (though I
didn't see #3).  There's also a ton of other books that look interesting there.



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