Author: Christophe Theron
Date: 13:07:06 12/30/00
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On December 30, 2000 at 14:05:09, Frank Quisinsky wrote:
>On December 30, 2000 at 11:36:06, Christophe Theron wrote:
>
>>On December 30, 2000 at 10:17:37, Frank Quisinsky wrote:
>>
>>>On December 30, 2000 at 10:11:42, Drazen Marovic wrote:
>>>
>>>> He obviously has no plans of ever making it commercial. The engine was
>>>>commercial strength 3 years ago. Just an endless tirade of excuses to keep me
>>>>from having all programs. GIVE IT TO ME!!
>>>
>>>We will not forget ... must say this ... Ferret is not allone from the TOP
>>>programs which are not comercial or free available !
>>>
>>>The French program Chess Wizard is one of the best chess programs in the world.
>>>
>>>Only that we all spoken about it.
>>>I think that the most people not know Chess Wizard but in my computer chess
>>>database are enough games and on the webpage of Djordje are much information.
>>>
>>>Best
>>>Frank
>>
>>
>>
>>That's right. Chess Wizard, written by Frederic Louguet (the guy who has built
>>the LCT I and II tests), is a very strong program. It used to be a favorite in
>>the french championship in the last years.
>>
>>A very solid program. You never get a full point easily against it.
>>
>>
>>
>> Christophe
>
>Hi Christophe,
>
>Chess Wizard is my wish engine with Arthur by Walter Ravanek for the next year.
>I hope the programmer from Chess Wizard read this message and make a engine for
>GUI x or y !
>
>Last year the programmer wrote here that he will rewrite the program. The result
>from a France-ch was not very good and Frederic was not happy about this.
>
>I hope so ...
>
>Best
>Frank
It is a common theme amongst chess programmers. After a bad result, the
programmer either says he gives up chess programming, or that he is going to
rewrite his program from scratch.
And after a while the guy has not given up chess programming, and instead of
rewritting he just keeps on improving his good program.
I'm not in Frederic shoes, but from the outside it looks like he does not have
to rewrite everything. His program is already so good that my guess is that the
best thing to do is just to optimize a little bit, clean the program a little
bit, then keep on improving it.
I've been there too. Almost all chess programmers did I think. :)
Christophe
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