Author: Enrique Irazoqui
Date: 05:56:16 10/15/00
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On October 15, 2000 at 07:44:21, Thorsten Czub wrote: >On October 15, 2000 at 06:28:06, Enrique Irazoqui wrote: > >>Christophe was the first to call himself a second Chris, hopefully for his >>approach to some aspects of chess programming. > >indeed ! harald misunderstands me. >he believes i want to take glory from christophe and wants to give it to >chris. IMO i do only want to point out that without people like chris, >we would not talk about how TAL has done it. > >>But I think we are forgetting Marty Hirsch. Mchess is speculative, aggressive >>and a lot of fun, and more balanced and succesful than CST. I would relate >>Gambit more to Mchess than to CST, and not for personal reasons. > >hm. of course mchess and marty are not forgotten. >but there is a thing that is different between mchess on the one side >and cstal/gambit-tiger on the other side. > >cstal and gambit-tiger follow one main-idea, very nasty way, very penetrant, >the whole game. >when i remember it right mchess was not that penetrant and suffered from >changing mind concerning plans. > > >>Enrique > >i hope marty comes back, also we dont have to forget de koning and >others. kittinger e.g. ! >they all gave a stone that builds the new temple ! Something else: If I like so much this kind of speculative programs it is not only as a way out of the redundancy and boredom of do-nothing, search-is-all programs, but because they look to me as a genuine progress in computer chess and in our ability to enjoy it. Now I realize that I'm doing a paraphrases of something that Bruce posted today. :) On the other hand (damn, there is so often another side to things), what does it tell you the fact that Gambit loses to Tiger, while crushing programs with a weak king-safety code? Speculative programs will be great, to some extent they already are, but do they need further refinement, suppleness, increased knowledge! For the moment, when I watch their games sometimes the word "brilliant", sometimes "fireworks" come to my mind. Enrique
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