Aug 21, 2001 08:27
I've had it in mind for some time now to write a computer program that plays chess. Why? A couple of years ago I had my first encounter with online chess at Yahoo! After being soundly beaten several times (also my first experience with blitz chess--shudder). I began to wonder if I could write a computer program that could learn to play the way humans play it. This would necessitate figuring out the differences between the way we people look at chess and the way computers do, as well as discovering a method of accurately evaluating the laws which govern who wins a game of chess. It also must be able to learn from its mistakes...
I have only recently begun to do anything solid with the idea. Maybe one day I'll havs time to write and refine it. If so, I'll keep you posted.