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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