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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