Author: Dann Corbit
Date: 20:22:18 03/06/06
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On March 06, 2006 at 23:19:48, James Swafford 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. > >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." C and Pascal are highly similar. C and BASIC are not. On the other hand, I think learing to write a functional chess program is at least as hard as learning the basics of the C programming language.
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