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Subject: Re: OPINION - CRAFTY , EXCHESS AS FRITZ5 32 bit ENGINE

Author: James Long

Date: 18:53:36 09/24/98

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On September 19, 1998 at 01:51:12, Danniel Corbit wrote:

>On September 18, 1998 at 19:13:06, James Long wrote:
>[snip]
>>I may change my mind, however, if someone can explain
>>why the program should continue to support Winboard.
>>Arasan does this I think - one version with its
>>own GUI and one that supports Winboard.
>I love to run to engines against each other with Winboard.  I probably would not
>even try Tristam if it did not have this capability.  I already have commercial
>products and excellent free ones that do work with Winboard.  Another free
>engine with its own proprietary front end has no interest to me at all [unless
>it started to knock the stuffings out of Fritz, Rebel and Junior, in which case
>it would suddenly become interesting).

I've put some thought into this over the last couple of days and
decided to continue to support Winboard.  The plan is to to give
the engine I've been developing over the past nine months a new
name, and continue development on Tristram where I left off at
3.36.  I've already identified several areas I could improve upon,
so 3.37 should be ready in a week or so.

As for the newer engine, it will be named "GAlahad."  The evaluation
function will be trained by genetic algorithms.  It won't support
Winboard, but will interface ICC via a Java front end.  I have no
idea when this thing will be done.  For now it is a "private"
program. :-)

---
James
http://home.fda.net/~wzrdking




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