Author: Bertil Eklund
Date: 04:14:11 12/08/99
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On December 07, 1999 at 18:21:06, Heiko Mikala wrote: >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. Hi! Thank you for the interesting information! Please continue with more games and new entries! Let me give you a hint IMO Zarkov5 is the most under-estimated program. IMO it is stronger than McP8 and Genius5, and a lot stronger than Wchess. Bertil
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