Re: Where's the joy in writing a chess engine?
Posted: Wed Oct 18, 2017 1:18 pm
I think it takes a certain mindset to do coding at all - you do have to like to solve difficult puzzles.
But at least for me, while I do apply some professional engineering techniques to my chess project, it is not very much like the work I did in my engineering day jobs (I am semi-retired now). For one thing, I don't have any deadlines when I do the chess stuff. But most software organizations have gone to Scrum (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scrum_(so ... velopment) ) now, or something like it, and that is deadlines all the time.
--Jon
But at least for me, while I do apply some professional engineering techniques to my chess project, it is not very much like the work I did in my engineering day jobs (I am semi-retired now). For one thing, I don't have any deadlines when I do the chess stuff. But most software organizations have gone to Scrum (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scrum_(so ... velopment) ) now, or something like it, and that is deadlines all the time.
--Jon