Author: Albert Silver
Date: 06:16:59 02/28/04
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On February 27, 2004 at 07:04:07, Peter Fendrich wrote:
>On February 26, 2004 at 20:37:03, Shane Hudson wrote:
Thanks for the overview. I was a bit like watching an episode of Twighlight Zone
on CCC..... :-)
Albert
>
>>Hi all,
>>
>>I've just started reading this forum again recently after not following it much
>>in 2003; looks like not much has changed. :-)
>
>Oh, yes it has. Just read the archives again and you'll see. I'll give you a
>short overview of changes during the last year:
>
>1) Vincent wrote an open letter to Bob: "I'm sorry about all negative stuff I
>wrote about you. Please, let's be friends again - I beg you! I really admire you
>and your Crafty as I admire most of the other chess programmers skill. I only
>hope to reach that level some day."
>
>2) Robert Hyatt annonced that Crafty now will be commercial. He will start a new
>company and earn big money. No more open source here. The first 2 programs
>released are Crafty and Diep. He will stop programming and be chairman of the
>board in the comapny. Vincent will be engaged as the new top star programmer and
>after Bob have bought his new tie and dark lounge suit he will, of course, stop
>posting in CCC.
>
>3) Instead Chessbase will very soon change all their products to open source
>projects and Frans Morsch will add new stuff to Ed's site, describing all his
>ideas and what's inside Fritz. (Hmm... I really have to check this again)
>
>4) Most people now have realised that only a few games are enough to establish
>with certainty who is the best. In fact only one game is enough, if you study it
>very carefully.
>
>5) I have found out a new search algorithm that constantly reaches 40 plies in
>the midgame without loosing in quality. There are only a few minor things left
>to test before I will reveal the whole thing in this forum. Yes, I forgot, 40
>plies on my laptop, it is.
>
>Due to my sources all of this is true or almost true... ;-)
>
>/Peter
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