Author: Dann Corbit
Date: 15:31:10 05/28/02
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On May 28, 2002 at 18:07:34, Jon Dart wrote: >>> 11. People write chess engines because chess itself is inspiring > >I think for me this is a big part of it. There are many people interested in >chess and there are various forms that this interest can take. Some people only >like OTB tournaments. Some like correspondence chess. Some like chess variants. >Some like composing problems. > >Some like experimenting with computer chess programs. I like the tinkering >aspect of it, as Scott Gasch does. And I also enjoy seeing a well-played game >produced by a program, or an interesting opening novelty, or discovering a piece >of chess knowledge that's missing and can be improved. I'm not really much into >the competitive aspects of it. > >There's also some satisfaction in making something that other people enjoy >using. Arasan is downloaded several thousand times a week, and I've corresponded >via email with many users of it all over the world. Which reminds me to thank you for Arasan. I used to play against it a lot [mostly, I get my whippings from Crafty now], and I like every part of it. I like the interface, I like the engine, I like the open source nature, I like your willingness to communicate. I think many times when I go over the list of "Chess Programming Pioneers" your name gets left out. That is a bad oversight, since your program was one of the very first good pieces of chess software that I had a chance to peruse.
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