Writing a Chess Program

[David K]

Hi all

I am tasked to write a chess program as a leisure exercise for an
educational institution. Is there anyone out there that can assist and maybe
show some additional pointers.

Thanks

[Fred Mellender]

This is not a simple task. See if you can change the assignment to program
a simpler game. You can find a lot of information via Google query, "how to
write a chess program" (e.g. http://www.geocities.com/nagaskaki/tips.html).
Entire books have been written on the subject.

If you want a skeleton for doing the alpha/beta pruning, you can use the
source code for Reversi (Othello) written in C#, V2, at
http://www.frontiernet.net/~fredm/dps/Contents.htm , chapter 8, which is
pretty well documented and will teach you the basics of "game trees".
However, you will need to write much chess-specific code.

"David K" <David [e-mail]> wrote in message
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Hi all

I am tasked to write a chess program as a leisure exercise for an
educational institution. Is there anyone out there that can assist and
maybe
show some additional pointers.

Thanks

[Charlie Tame]

Sheesh Fred, you have a talent for understatement.
"Fred Mellender" <no****************@frontiernet.net> wrote in message
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This is not a simple task.
But I just love the solution.
See if you can change the assignment to program a simpler game.

But thanks for the link, not my question but am finding your site
interesting. :)

Charlie