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Subject: Re: The next revolution in computer chess is here

Author: Mogens Larsen

Date: 11:05:06 11/15/00

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On November 15, 2000 at 13:10:25, Christian Söderström wrote:

>Yes ladies and gentlemen, from the man who brought you the
>facial evaluation in Mint (I like to call them smilieval),
>here comes the next innovation.
>
>MintMic!
>
>It implements algorythms never before seen or even thought
>of in computer chess. It does its best to mi(nt)mic the
>opponents game! How does it do this? Well, most noticeably
>it likes to move its pieces to the same rank or file that
>you last moved a piece to. It also attempts to obtain and
>maintain a symmetrical pawn structure.
>
>What on earth is this all about you ask? Well, just try and
>play it personally, I can tell you that I think it really
>is a lot of fun! You get some incredibly unexpected moves,
>and sometimes very strong ones with untypically deep
>strategical ideas behind them. Or at least you can pretend
>that there are :)
>
>So download it now!
>http://ds.onyx.nu/mint/mintmic.zip
>
>But please, don't go through any trouble putting it into
>databases or playing it in tournaments or whatever, its
>just a little hack and pretty much inferior to most
>other engines. The purpose of it is to give you a really
>different chess experience. It isn't even on the Mint
>page yet.
>
>Bu bye!
>
>- Christian
>(btw, this is being cross-posted)

Looking forward to trying this version in person as I'm already addicted to the
smiley's. You did promise to implement SMP in your program after CCT-2 if I
remember correctly. I just didn't know you meant Symmetrical Mint Position :o).

Mogens



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