Author: stuart taylor
Date: 02:56:20 03/22/02
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On March 22, 2002 at 04:55:48, Thorsten Czub wrote: >On March 22, 2002 at 04:35:35, Frankie Kam wrote: > >>Hi. >>This one if for computer chess fans. >> >>Does anyone have a patch file or upgrade file that allows >>Chess System Tal II to be upgraded to Chess System Tal III? >>The upgrade patch was placed onto Oxford Softworks website >>last year, but it's been deleted. > >the 2.03 version can be "ordered" by me. >It's only an executable, and only if somebody has the original >CD version, it can be overwritten over the 2.00 executable of the CD. > > > >>What about the CST2 patch that allowed it to be upgraded to >>CST2.50? Chris Whittington mentioned that in one of his posts >>to rec.games.chess.computers some time back in 1999. > >the 2.5 version had a broken engine. it was only made for programmers >to implement foreign engines into cstal user interface. >the tal engine was broken, it is not playing sensible. >it plays very weak. > >the 2.03 version is the strongest version. >there is no other version since chris whittington left computerchess. >he sold his company for a large amount of money to purple. >as far as i know he lives with his big big family, last time i asked >he had 6 children :-))) , and an amount of animals of all kind, >in a nice new house near a nice river. maybe he sits the whole time >under a tree, in the shadow, reading all kind of newspapers. >but he stopped computerchess. from his point of view chess programmers >were not intelligent enough for him. so he got interested in other stuff. >he wrote a shogi program. and did other stuff later... > > >>Does the patch still exist? Where can I get it from? > >as i said: you can get the latest and strongest version from me. > > >>Regads >>Frankie Kam, >>a Chess System Tal Fan > >>"Positional Chess Vs Brute Force" - who will win? > >of course the positional. >but - chess system tal is not in the first place playing positional. >in fact it tries to complicate the game. > >but if you want to talk about A.I. against Artificial Stupidity chess >programming, that would be a topic... > >we could come with many examples of todays chess programs. Of course, 6 children would not be enough to call that a "big big" family! Artificial stupidity? You mean complicating things? Are there good things about CSTAL which don't yet exist in todays best programs? S.Taylor
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