Author: Poon Wai Hong
Date: 19:54:42 03/06/06
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On March 06, 2006 at 22:40:38, Dann Corbit wrote: >On March 06, 2006 at 22:30:25, Dann Corbit wrote: > >>On March 06, 2006 at 22:14:21, Poon Wai Hong wrote: >> >>>Hello, >>> >>>Thank you. >>> >>>May I ask one more question? Is BASIC language a suitable language to for >>>writing chess engine. Which strong chess engine is written in BASIC language? >>>Can BASIC language be used to write strong chess engine? ( For example, Visual >>>Basic, Powerbasic, etc. ) >>> >>>I ask this question because I want to use BASIC language to write a chess engine >>>in the future. In fact, my knowlege of other programming languages is limited. >> >>Writing a chess engine in BASIC will cost you about 50 Elo or so, compared to >>some other engine. >> >>If you are very familiar with BASIC, then that should be your choice for your >>first chess engine. It would be a mistake to try to learn to write a new >>language and learn to write a chess program at the same time, I think. > >Chess engines written in BASIC: >Kanguruh: >http://home.pacific.net.au/~tommyinoz/kanguruh.html > >LarsenVB (page is dead) > >Murderhole: >http://www.oldre.com/murderhole/default.aspx > > >Chess engines have also been written in C# and Java, which will have exactly the >same handicaps as a VB engine (speed penalty of at least half). > >That will cost you one full ply of analysis, but for learning how to get the job >done, I think VB would be fine. > >LarsenVB was open source. Migoya chess is a non-winboard chess engine written >in VB. > >There are probably some others kicking about that I can't think of. Hi..thanks for your information.
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