Author: Sune Larsson
Date: 12:00:09 04/26/01
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On April 26, 2001 at 05:58:37, joe dean wrote: >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. ...and all combinations of the letters in the name and word mentioned above. Like "At last rich" and such...;) Sune > > > > > 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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