Author: Daniel Shawul
Date: 08:41:42 07/21/04
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On July 20, 2004 at 21:16:21, Tord Romstad wrote: >On July 20, 2004 at 14:57:34, milix wrote: > >>Hi Tord >>New engine? Are you going to stop developing Gothmog? > >Yes. I have almost stopped developing it already, but I will release a >final 1.0 version with some bug fixes later this summer. > >Gothmog's source code has simply grown so rotten, ugly and unmaintainable >that there is little point in developing it further. Its tortured existence >has already lasted far too long. The program is riddled with elusive search >bugs and brain-dead design decisions from the time when I was an even more >incompetent programmer than I am today. > >I expect the first versions of Gothmog's successors (the explanation for >the plural is that I am developing two twin engines, one for normal chess >and one for hexagonal chess) to be ready quite soon. It will take some >time before they approach Gothmog's strength, though. Hi Tord what's hexagonla chess? Is it much different from normal chess. I had an engine which played chess and checkers [same code] and it was very hard for me to update both at the same time. It was only after i saw tscp i stick to chess only. best daniel > >Tord
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