Author: James Swafford
Date: 20:19:48 03/06/06
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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. I don't. I think if you have a project you can get obsessive about you'll be much more eager to learn the language you're implementing it in. At least, it worked that way for me. I started writing C to write a better chess program (first attempts were in Pascal), not to "learn C." -- James
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