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Subject: Re: Xeroxing chess books?

Author: Andrew Williams

Date: 00:33:18 01/28/00

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On January 27, 2000 at 20:16:26, Jeremiah Penery wrote:

>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.

Really? I tried to get a copy of "Computers, Chess and Cognition" at
amazon.co.uk, and they said they couldn't get hold of a copy for me.

Andrew



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