Author: Roy Eassa
Date: 09:42:52 06/18/02
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Thanks for a bunch of good info! On June 17, 2002 at 14:19:05, ujecrh wrote: >There were in fact many versions of Virtual Chess (which was even called Virtua >Chess because of some legal issues at some point): >- Version 1 was DOS-only. It was fairly nice at that time, supporting up to >1024x768x256 vesa mode resolution, and real 3D view with pieces design on an SGI >box. >- VC Platinum CD contains versions for DOS, Win3.x (using the win32s api), WinNT >and higher. >- VC for Windows contained only a Windows 32 version that I believed was the one >already present in Platinium CD >- VC2 is an update of the engine and (unfortunately IMO) of the GUI >- VC Academy was AFAIK the same as VC2 with tutorials and other addons. Very >very buggy though... > >One nice thing about VC was that the installation was not taking any space on >the machine, just a dll and a configuration file. The program could run mainly >from the CD (well, you had to have the CD in the drive to run the program which >some people might not like). > >Jean-Christophe Weil and Marc Francois Badaut (I hope I do not misspell) were >the authors of the engine. JCW also wrote his PHD thesis on parallelism of chess >program if I recall correctly. Another paper that JCW wrote was about pawn >structure management, I think it dealt with what they called an "oracle" for >pawn structures evaluation. > >Some years ago I asked JCW about his program not being tested by SSDF and, even >if the autoplayer may have been an issue, the author clearly did not want VC to >be part of the list. They focussed on playing humans and got some nice results >(among them a >2600 performance at Aubervillier I think). > > >Ujecrh
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