Author: Jorge Pichard
Date: 18:38:22 06/30/05
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On June 28, 2005 at 06:37:31, Reinhard Scharnagl wrote: >On June 28, 2005 at 06:26:46, Tord Romstad wrote: > >>On June 28, 2005 at 02:04:27, Reinhard Scharnagl wrote: >> >>>I am sorry about the fact, that Smirf's growing abilities are tested nearly by >>>nobody. Some feed back could be very helpful. >> >>Hi Reinhard, >> >>Yes, I know the problem. Like you, I happen to like chess variants, and I >>have written two chess variant programs (for FRC and hexagonal chess). My >>experience is the same as yours: Almost nobody are interested in chess >>variants. My FRC engine has been available to the public for about one >>year, and so far only one (!) user have been provided me with feedback. In >>contrast, the equivalent non-FRC engine is extremely popular, and I still >>occasionally receive games and comments from users, despite not having >>released a new version since last summer. >> >>The situation for the hexagonal chess program is slightly better, but not >>much. It was released a few months ago, and only a handful of users have >>contacted me. The sad truth is that the vast majority of users don't care >>about anything else than normal chess. >> >>I think the easiest way for you to get lots of feedback would be to release >>a special version of your program without any chess variant support, but >>with support for the UCI or xboard protocol. I am sure a lot of people >>would be very interested. > >Tord, > >probably I will do it, when UCI officially supports Chess960. > >Reinhard. At this moment I am playing Pharaon 3.3 using UCI under Arena 1.1, since Pharaon does NOT play using WB1 or Wb2 under arena 1.1. Jorge
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