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Subject: Re: Crafty in WCCC ???

Author: Eugene Nalimov

Date: 15:35:41 06/18/99

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On June 18, 1999 at 17:49:54, Robert Hyatt wrote:

>On June 18, 1999 at 13:30:54, Eugene Nalimov wrote:
>
>>[a lot of text deleted]
>>
>>>I think every participant saw that as my reply went to everybody, including
>>>the icca participant list.  The ICCA _never_ suggested that "Hey Bob, if you
>>>can enter crafty and get someone to operate for you, that will be fine with
>>>us."  The above rule seems _perfectly clear_ to me.  I thought of three
>>>people that "might" qualify.  Jason Deines has written some code for crafty,
>>>as has Mike Byrne.  Jason is in Grad school and Mike was involved in a new
>>>job.  Eugene would (IMHO) also qualify since I am using his probe code and
>>>the asm stuff he wrote a long while back.  However Eugene also has a full-time
>>>job at Microsoft and I didn't consider it apprpriate to put him on the spot by
>>>asking either.  So after the above simple statement, that was all I heard.
>>
>>[some text deleted]
>>
>>It looks that I was able to operate at least half a dozen programs there... And
>>also give a presentation at ACC9. Unfortunately, I'm very busy at my job right
>>now.
>>
>>Eugene
>
>
>Right.  You have made a _major_ contribution to computer chess.  But Bruce and
>I had this discussion in the past at some point, because if you bend the rules
>the right way, several of us could call you co-author.  And while your stuff is
>essential (IMHO) doing so is probably a convolution of the intent of the
>rules...

Sorry, I forgot to put a "smile :-)" there. Of course I am not the author of
Crafty, Hiarcs, Shredder, ... in any sense. I suspect that VC runtime is
embedded in more chess programs.

Eugene



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