Author: William Bryant
Date: 17:40:36 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. > >-Tom Tom, a couple of thoughts. Amazon was able to get me several out of print computer chess books. I might take a month or two, but order them as out of print. Advances in Chess 3 took me about 4 weeks to get through interlibrary loan back when I wanted to look up some older information. Since you are already at a major university (rather than a public library) you should be able to get it faster. I did copy a chapter of two from that book. If you know which one you want, and don't mind a copy of a copy, I'll look through the large stacks on my floor and see if I have it. As a general aside, The hardest literature to access on computer chess is back issues of JICCA. If they would put the whole thing of a CD Rom in PDF format or something (and drop the price) I'd still be willing to pay ~ $150 or so. At present, a complete set of back issues will run >$400. Not that this is not fair, just outside of my ball park at present. Note: I run on a Mac (which I happen to like very much, so a OS/system neutral version rather Windows-centric CD rom is what I have in mind.) William wbryant@ix.netcom.com
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