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Subject: Re: Deep Blue is soooooooo AMERICAN

Author: Bas Hamstra

Date: 02:14:48 01/18/01

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On January 17, 2001 at 12:55:50, Robert Hyatt wrote:

>On January 16, 2001 at 21:09:12, John Wentworth wrote:
>
>>On January 16, 2001 at 18:47:03, Robert Hyatt wrote:
>>
>>>On January 16, 2001 at 17:30:51, John Wentworth wrote:
>>>
>>>>On January 15, 2001 at 22:55:24, Wayde Beasley wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>I bought Fritz the other day and have been playing with it.  Slowly, surely, it
>>>>>comes upon me a kind of gestalt experience: FRITZ IS SOOOOOOO GERMAN!
>>>>>
>>>>>Whereas most other non-German engines strive for some elegance, this totally
>>>>>German approach goes for broke in pure tactical brilliance, pure calculational
>>>>>mastery.
>>>>
>>>>To bad it doesn't exist anymore  :(
>>>>What programs would be on an American team, other than Crafty ?
>>>
>>>
>>>We have our share...  Crafty...  Ferret...  Gnuchess...  Wchess...
>>>                      Zarkov...  Mchess Pro...  The various versions
>>>                      of Socrates at MIT...  HiTech...  Cray Blitz if
>>>                      we tried hard...
>>>
>>>Etc. I am sure I missed several.
>>
>>That would be cool, I would love to see a Cray Blitz make a come back, maybe a
>>renew the rivalry with Belle.
>
>
>Those were fun days.  I think that Belle is now in the Smithsonian as an
>exhibit, so it won't play again probably.  Cray Blitz is still around, but I
>doubt it will ever play again either.  I think that once we get singular
>extensions working in Crafty, it will pretty well close the final gap between
>it and Cray Blitz, making trying to find a Cray a waste of time...

Why is it so hard to make it work in Crafty? I mean, you did it before, so...?

Bas.








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