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Subject: Re: Speaking of the Thesis by Marcel van Kervinck (hopefully no storms)...

Author: Tony Werten

Date: 16:30:51 09/06/02

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On September 06, 2002 at 18:48:40, Dann Corbit wrote:

>On September 06, 2002 at 18:40:16, Georg v. Zimmermann wrote:
>
>>
>>You shouldnt call an article excellent before you have implemented what it
>>describes or tested it etc etc, shouldnt you ?
>>
>>Else how do you really know whether the article is excellent ?
>
>He talks about the same thing in his book.  He had a win for the idea in his
>program (but who knows if it will extrapolate to other programs).

Hmm, mention a bad idea twice and it gets better ?

>
>At any rate, he is a good writer and very willing to share his ideas.

Yes. His idea about interior node recognition made my program a lot stronger in
the endgame.


>Which reminds me -- I wonder what has become of Dark Thought.  I wonder if
>people are still working on it, or if it is gathering dust some where.

Last time I spoke him (1.5 years ago) he was going for the dust.

Tony




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