Author: Miguel A. Ballicora
Date: 18:45:10 01/06/02
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On January 06, 2002 at 19:05:24, pavel wrote: >On January 06, 2002 at 18:09:15, Miguel A. Ballicora wrote: > >>On January 06, 2002 at 15:58:55, Roy Eassa wrote: >> >>>On January 06, 2002 at 15:34:56, Dieter Buerssner wrote: >>> >>>>On January 06, 2002 at 14:45:04, Jeroen van Dorp wrote: >>>> >>>>>*Yace 0.99.56* (I hope I didn't forget an essential number in it's name) >>>> >>>>Do you prefer version numbers, like the ones of my Internet explorer? >>>>(5.00.2919.6307) I also sent away versions of Yace by email, that append an "a" >>>>or a "b" (hey - learned this from Fritz, but did not help much to beat it ...) >>>> >>>>Perhaps the next version will be called Yace 1 (no decimal points, and nothing >>>>else), but looks a bit boring, so I might reconsider. >>>> >>>>-- Dieter >>> >>> >>>Call it what you will, it still must make you pretty proud. You've managed to >>>create a super-strong program that's tied with Crafty as the best free chess >>>program in human history. >>> >>>When did you begin programming Yace? Have you done the bulk of the work making >>>it so strong in the past 2 years (all I can find on the Yace website) or does it >>>go way back like Crafty? How did you manage to make it stronger in the endgame >>>than many of the top commercial programs? >> >>There must be many factors, but he has one that is essential: He cares. >>I do not think I am wrong in this one. >> >>Regards, >>Miguel > >Yes, and I can confirm that. >You dont see that, alot in freeware chess engine programmers. >It needs a lot of dedication to come this far in such a short time, from what I >can see, there has been a lot of progress from the first versions of Yace till >now. And from my "conversations" wih him through e-mail and ICS, I can >understand that he cares alot to make it even better everyday. And he likes >feedback, so if you wanna bash yace or anything, make sure you e-mail him ;) Yes, but what I mean is that the particularly cares for the endgames while some of the commercial programmers don't. Regards, Miguel > >regards, >pavs
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