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Your first chess program.
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Giorgio Medeot



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Location: Ivrea, Italy
PostPost subject: Re: Your first chess program.    Posted: Thu May 10, 2012 3:50 pm Reply to topic Reply with quote
Back in 1990, while I was in High School, I had an hour a week free during lessons as I didn't attend the religion course. I was somewhat famous in my (little) school as I was a brilliant student back then, so I was trusted enough to be given the keys of the computer lab.
I was playing chess since I was 14, and I had just read an article about A/B, so I decided to write a chess program, and I did it in the only programming language I knew at the time (apart from BASIC, which I just hated): Prolog.
It took about 6 months, and in the end it could play legal chess up to a fixed depth of 3 plies.
There were a bunch of Olivetti M200 in the room, and I remember that the thing was sooo slow, that while I was waiting for it to spit out his "e2-e4" thing as his first move, I already had another machine started from that position. By the way, it took about 24 minutes to push his pawn...

Very Happy

Cheers,
    Giorgio
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Your first chess program. Dan Honeycutt Fri Apr 20, 2012 1:07 pm
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