Author: joe dean
Date: 02:58:37 04/26/01
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On April 25, 2001 at 14:40:53, Fernando Villegas wrote: >Hi all: >It seems that after all Chris W., the official villain of this site according to >many, was the father of a real good idea: Fernando, A suggestion. It would perhaps make sense to cease making mention of Chess System Tal here. Chris sold the Oxford Softworks business almost a year ago and has moved on from computer chess. References to CSTAL or to Chris himself might have the effect of dragging him back to a place he doesn't want to be. Plus, as you can tell from Christophe's comment, the programmers here really don't like the idea that Chris may have been first with the idea, they seem to feel that this would take away from their own achievements, which of course it doesn't, they achieve what they achieve with their own hard work. References also may just increase the hate level which can't be healthy for those afflicted. So from both sides, it probably is best to just not mention CSTAL or Chris's name. It just creates 'trouble'. And 'trouble' is not wanted here. Let's just add "Chris" and "CSTAL" to the list of banned words. Easier all round. that no matter how much you search, >you cannot outsearch the power of positional awareness when speculative attacks >are the issue. With just or mainly searching capabilities, the engine can see >maybe 16 plies, really a lot, but an accurate positionallly based attacking shot >can go a lot deeper, some times from middle game to the very end. > >If something has been probed -at least until now- by the incredibles wins of DJ >is precisely that. Look the way it has won. Look the evals of Fritz. Look at >that of DJ. Look at the lethal sacrifices of DJ againts all purely searching >criteria. > >Luck? Just a casual output of "only" five games? Or maybe six by now? I cannot >believe that. I see that Mr Ban has got his lessons from Gambit as Theron got >his lessons from Wittington. By "lesson" I understand not neccesarily an >specific learning of some witty tricks, but the fruitfull development of an >idea. > >I cannot way the day this Super DJ will be in the shells. Or even better, the >next program inspired, at its turn, by the perfomance of DJ. A new era of chess >programming maybe - well, almost surely- is beginning. > >With hope > >Fernando
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