Author: Mridul Muralidharan
Date: 05:34:06 12/18/03
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On December 18, 2003 at 06:49:17, Uri Blass wrote: >On December 18, 2003 at 05:31:29, Mridul Muralidharan wrote: > >>On December 18, 2003 at 05:12:20, Uri Blass wrote: >> >>>On December 18, 2003 at 04:48:58, Tord Romstad wrote: >>> >>>>On December 17, 2003 at 18:08:14, Omid David Tabibi wrote: >>>> >>>>>Actually, I can claim that Genesis is one of the strongest programs in the >>>>>world, and that is correct, since Genesis is in the top 100 :) >>>> >>>>I doubt that. I think the vast majority of the amateur chess engines are >>>>private. If you play on the ICC, for instance, you will see that there are >>>>lots of very strong engines which are not publicably available, which do >>>>not play in any of the Winboard tournaments, but are clearly extremely >>>>strong. >>>> >>>>From what I have seen, it seems that my engine is at least on the same >>>>level as Genesis, but I don't think it is among the top 500 programs. >>>> >>>>Tord >>> >>>I agree that genesis is probably not in the top 100 but I believe that like your >>>engine it is in the top 500. >>>I guess that part of the private engines are practically a clone of commercial >>>programs or free programs. >>> >>>Programmers who develop strong programs need to test them and if somebody >>>like Leo give free computer time for testing then I see no reason not to send >>>the program to him. >>> >>>Uri >> >> >> Leo is doing a great job - but that does not imply that everyone >>will/must/shall use his excellent services. >> Lot would prefer to test their engines themselves or with their own testers >>until they decide to make it public (I am in this category) or never make them >>public but continue it as a hobby. >>Need I repeat the wisecrack about "assume" here again ? ;) >> >>Mridul > >You do not have to make your program public in order to participate in WBEC. > >The only reason that I understand not to participate there is if your program >does not support winboard but there are also tournaments by other people when >arena is used. > >Uri I said , it will be available for Leo's tourny's _when_ it is made public. Until then - no , and it will be completely private. If it figures out in Leo's tourny's then it is only fair that I supply my engine to everyone who runs similar tourny's (why the partiality onlu to Leo ?) - and If I do that - I might as well make it public ! Mridul
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