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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