Author: Heiko Mikala
Date: 15:21:06 12/07/99
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Hi Djordje! On December 07, 1999 at 10:57:29, Djordje Vidanovic wrote: >Hello Heiko, > >I agree with Marcus and wish to thank you for posting. Thank you Djordje, thank you Markus! :-) >BTW, how's HMChess progressing? Just a few minutes ago I saw it walk around the corner with a bottle of beer in it's hands, grumbling something like "I'm tired of this stupid, damn chess playing thing all day long. I wanna do something *really* exciting! Something like SHOGI, Heiko. Got it!?!" (Are Chris Whittington and Thorsten Czub still around? ;-))) Seriously now, there's not much news about it. As you know, I stopped work on it in january, after I found out about some weird bugs. I then worked on it again for only a few days in june, if I remember correctly, fixed one bug, worked around another but still have at least two left. And I added some smaller new features, like position learning and a new opening book format. But I'm still a bit frustrated because of these bugs, and didn't do anything on the program since june. >For those who are not in the know: Heiko Mikala wrote a pretty strong program >that played on FICS last year. I played some games against it and it is in the >2150-2200 range. I am sure that Heiko could make it a lot stronger if only he >had more time :)) :)) I'm trying to make me hungry again with this tournament ;) At the moment I'm thinking about starting by writing a new Windows-GUI for the program, or do something really exciting and funny first, like enhancing it's own king-safety and implementing a king-attack module - MChess Pro 8 and CSTal made me think about this again. This king-attack code should be much fun in games against humans at least, maybe it would even work against other computers. If it worked, it would make those FICS-sessions even more exciting :-) Greetings, Heiko.
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