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Subject: Re: When is the next version of TSCP coming?

Author: Pete Galati

Date: 07:54:46 06/12/00

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On June 12, 2000 at 10:41:24, aloysius wrote:

>On June 11, 2000 at 12:14:45, blass uri wrote:
>
>>On June 11, 2000 at 12:11:42, blass uri wrote:
>>
>>>On June 11, 2000 at 09:48:45, aloysius wrote:
>>>
>>>>On June 09, 2000 at 23:57:06, Pete Galati wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>On June 09, 2000 at 15:56:56, Tom Kerrigan wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>>On June 09, 2000 at 11:22:48, aloysius wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>>When is the next version of TSCP coming? {to Tom :-]}
>>>>>>
>>>>>>I haven't had any requests for features or bug reports since version 1.5, so it
>>>>>>seems like TSCP is pretty much done. :)
>>>>>>
>>>>>>-Tom
>>>>>
>>>>>My suggestion would be to have the board automatically display itself when not
>>>>>using it as a Winboard engine.  At one time I was going to sit down and figure
>>>>>out how to do that, but I never got around to it.
>>>>>
>>>>>Pete
>>>>
>>>>What about implementing some more search algo. What about teaching it to
>>>>evaluate good and bad bishops, piece mobility and pawn structure.
>>>>-aloysius
>>>
>>>The idea of TSCP is not to be a good chess program.
>>>
>>>I understood that you wanted a simple chess program so please explain what do
>>>you mean by a simple chess program.
>>>
>>>You can have limitation about size of the engine  and if this is the case tell
>>>us what is the maximal size of the engine that you are interested in.
>>>
>>>Uri
>>
>>I understood from anpother post of you that you meant only to good explanation
>>of everything and not to the size of the engine.
>>
>>Uri
>
>Maybe I should say that a simple program means that it just plays chess (not
>asking for something like crafty), I don't need programs that has code for all
>sort of other things like for use of tablebases, analysis, ponder etc... I
>believe a program that just plays chess (without other functions) will give me
>my simple program; the program I want. A crafty striped to just the core where
>it still plays chess will be simple enough. I think that crafty will be markly
>smaller and easier to digest :-)

Last time I looked at it, Phalanx is a real nice piece of source code.  There's
_not_ a whole lot of code, and it makes a great program.  Phalanx is one of the
top programs.

Pete



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