M Winther wrote on Tue, Apr 21, 2009 08:08 PM UTC:
You would have to use C-language, yes. Anyway, Zillions is freeware, too,
to a great extent. There are many games for free, and you can construct
chess variants, too, and store them as Zillions games. There are many
pieces implemented which one can add by right-clicking.
The brute tree-search is deadening. Chess is much more fun when plans are
used. Zillions sometimes comes up with the plan to move the rook to f6 and
then out on the kingside (before his own pawns) in order to make the enemy
king nervous. Sometimes it's not good, but it's a plan. ChessBase Fritz
has always been a very bad program in this respect. It has only made
calculations and is lacki ng in ideas. Zillions suddenly starts a mad pawn
storm on the king's side. At least it's a plan, although, by calculation,
it is often bad. But it's much more interesting because it's the human
style of play. Zillions, of course, has too little of this. If a planning,
thinking, chess program would be created, it would revolutionize computer
chess. Chessplayers are bored to death about sterile chess programs.
/Mats