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

Author: Dave Gomboc

Date: 17:14:57 09/06/02

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On September 06, 2002 at 19:50:17, Dann Corbit wrote:

>On September 06, 2002 at 19:30:51, Tony Werten wrote:
>>On September 06, 2002 at 18:48:40, Dann Corbit wrote:
>[snip]
>>>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.
>
>That's a tragedy.  It was a very strong programs with a lot of interesting ideas
>implemented in it.  His tablebase stuff was particularly clever.
>
>It would sure be nice if he would pop it up on source forge.
>
>But then again, maybe 10,000 chefs would spoil the stew.

That won't happen.  I asked him once, he said he didn't want it to get ripped
off like Crafty's (people changing a bit and pretending it was all theirs).

Dave




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