Author: Roy Eassa
Date: 15:55:01 05/28/02
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On May 28, 2002 at 18:31:10, Dann Corbit wrote: >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. Everything Dann said goes for me too. I think I first used Arasan in the early '90s, if not earlier.
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