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Subject: Re: TSCP enhancements [Re: Short chess programs]

Author: Ian Osgood

Date: 07:51:48 09/20/02

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On September 19, 2002 at 22:13:40, Will Singleton wrote:
>
>Interesting about your chess program.  Will you be releasing it, and is it
>currently playing on any ics?  I remember playing your dedicated machine on fics
>years ago, nice to hear you've written your own.
>
>Will

See the bottom of my first post for the web page where I published the source.

This was both a learning project for the Forth langauge and a donation of decent
chess program to the Forth community.  (The other program mentioned on that web
page is quite poor.)  It is not meant to be competitive with other engines,
especially since I haven't got my hands on  a good optimizing Forth (Gforth and
Win32Forth use threaded code, giving performance on par to interpreted programs;
bigForth is 3x faster by compiling to machine code, but  still does not optimize
like a C compiler would.  There are much better commercial Forths available
which do optimize.)

The eval also hasn't changed from TSCP (yet), so it would not be a particularly
interesting opponent.

There is another programmer who did make a WinBoard interface for my program,
but it runs on his own commercial Forth.
(http://home.iae.nl/users/mhx/)

Ian



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