Author: Uri Blass
Date: 02:10:18 08/08/03
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On August 08, 2003 at 04:38:07, Thorsten Czub wrote: >On August 07, 2003 at 18:18:47, Tord Romstad wrote: >>>as far as i remember it, it was me saving the sources regularly. > >>You still have the sources somewhere, I hope? I would like to continue >>believing that there is at least an infinitesimal chance that CST will >>be resurrected some day ... >> >>Tord > >Sounds like christians believing in Jesus :-)) > >The source code of ChessSystemTal is something very unique >(because of the magnificent comments of the programmer team talking via >REM lines with each other). > >As you maybe know Chris had a team of many programmers, some working >on the GUI, meanwhile chris did the creative part of the chess engine. >But sometimes the programmers had to interact and since they were all very >different it was amusing to see how this worked. >Chris tried out many things and the source code is full of funny >remarks telling Chris not to edit here, not to change there ... > > >I met them personally and often talked with them via telephone, fax >or later email. > >In his small company chris had at least 3 or 4 autoplayer-pairs running >against genius, fritz, mchess, hiarcs. > >I have no idea what chris is doing at the moment. >He is not the first intelligent person leaving the scene. >Remember that Julio Kaplan, Thomas Nitsche and Marty Hirsch left for various >reasons. > >IMO the programmers should more often let their programs fight against each >other instead of insulting each other in newsgroups. same for the fans. I agree. > >Tournaments are very important for canalyzing this HEAT into something senseful. > >In older times we had more tournaments. I do not think that you are right. Leo does important tournaments. see http://wbec-ridderkerk.nl/ Time control is 40/40 commercial programs also participate if they can support winboard. Deep Sjeng and Gandalf participates in this edition and play in the premier division and in the next edition chessmaster9000 and Rebel12 are going to join the party. Fritz and Shredder do not play but it is the choice of the programmers not to support winboard so they can blame only themselves(old version of shredder participated in the past but stopped to do it because of some problem of stability and only olf Sos and old list can participate). Ruffian won the last editions but now it is going to have bigger opposition including aristarch and Deep Sjeng but it seems that it is going to win another tournament(maybe next tournament chessmaster9000 or Rebel12 can stop it). > >I am looking forward to your program, as i told you. It is a free program and you can download it like other winboard programs http://f11.parsimony.net/forum16635/ see select engine and choose Gothmog. Uri
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