Author: Ed Schröder
Date: 15:10:53 02/28/02
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On February 28, 2002 at 11:11:19, Louis Fagliano wrote: >On February 28, 2002 at 08:23:06, Ed Schröder wrote: > >>On February 28, 2002 at 07:27:58, Claudio A. Amorim wrote: >> >>>I have been some days off the ICC, and now I see these talks about Ed´s >>>retirement... Can someone tel me what´s happening? >>> >>>Thanks in advance, >>> >>>Claudio. >> >>I am retiring from the competition, not from development. In more detail: >> >>http://site2936.dellhost.com/forums/1/message.shtml?215696 >> >>Ed > > >But Ed, if you're not retiring from development, can't Rebel still participate >in competition in challenge matches against GM's with a different operator? >Jeroen Noomen, perhaps, or anybody else you choose to nominate? There are 2 issues that are important for me: 1) I want to have freedom of development without the pressure to perform better and better and better. 2) Time: For Rebel Century 4 I had only 6 weeks time, that's much too less to compete. The level of the general improvement of the last 3 years has been much to big to compensate that in just 6 weeks. All of this is a result of the new direction I took a couple of years ago, the new cooperations with Christophe Theron, Lex Loep, Steen Suurballe and last but not least a growing Internet. Already a few years ago I knew this decision would lead to today's situation, a day has only 24 hours folks. The last years I have been functioned more as a manager than a chess programmer and now it was high time to make a final choice. Nervertheless in my heart I will remain the chess programmer, my first love. No Sunday best suit with tie for me. About competition, put your minds on Chess Tiger and Gandalf. I prefer to put my energy in these 2 fantastic chess engines. Competition against super GM's will continue, currently Gandalf is player a 4-game match against strong human players in correspondence chess, the next match against a super GM will be for Chess Tiger which should prove that its TPR of 2788 in Argentina was no accident. Ed
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