Author: Paul
Date: 15:04:17 05/09/01
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On May 09, 2001 at 16:48:41, Djordje Vidanovic wrote: >On May 09, 2001 at 07:00:19, Paul wrote: > >>On May 09, 2001 at 06:37:43, Djordje Vidanovic wrote: >> >>>On May 08, 2001 at 21:09:10, Paul wrote: >>> >>>>On May 08, 2001 at 20:50:09, Djordje Vidanovic wrote: >>>> >>>>>Ikarus (Young Talents) was really fast! I was connected to the Internet, and had >>>>>a Bizet CD playing "Au fond du temple saint" at the same time... otherwise it >>>>>could have been even a little faster I guess :-) >>>> >>>>Hey, that's no excuse! ... I was connected and listened to Brahms' "Symphony No. >>>>2 in D (The Tragic Overture), Op. 81, 2. Adagio non troppo" through WinAmp when >>>>solving it ... ;) >>> >>>No excuses. Consider the additional information only a human touch, so to >>>speak. Glad to hear that you like Brahms. The mere mention of WinAmp makes me >>>shudder though -- that impersonal, digital world of the Matrix... :-) >>> >>>*** Djordje >> >>Ahhh ... but you *are* playing CD's ... not LP's? ;) >> >>Paul > > >I sure do play CDs, not LPs. However, that does not prevent me from thinking >about the impersonality of the computer and its Matrix-like role in my life :-) >And yours, for all I know. As I'm sure you understood, I was just teasing a little (as always, sigh). I thought your post was nice; for me, it's always nice to see something personal in a post, and that's why I responded. And when I did, I didn't even remember what was coming out of my speakers at solving time, although it probably was some Corrs mp3, my favorite (Irish) group at the moment (I can hear you shriek & see you shudder :). What I did know was what I was hearing when responding ... Brahms! Wonderful symphonies, just wish I had No. 3 & 4 too, am looking for those! >*** Djordje > >PS: Could you let us know a little more about Pretz, please? Thanks for asking, Djordje! Don't know what you want to hear of course, but I started it a couple of years ago, just after TSCP came out. Used Tom's sources as a framework, but what's in TSCP, isn't in Pretz anymore (sorry Tom! :). Rewrote everything, and added a lot of stuff like nullmove, hash tables, aspiration search, fractional extensions, egtb support, ?etc? :) & a nice GUI using Borland C++Builder. It can read/write PGN/EPD files, and there's copy & paste to im/export positions, pv's & game notations. After an initial programming rage of some months, didn't do much on it until this January, when I got my inspiration back, and since then altered a lot again (for mates/combinations especially) ... changed too much, am having some stability problems now. :) It's not a "real" chessprogram, I use it just for analysis, eg. it can only search to a fixed/infinite ply/time, no winboard compatibility, no pondering. But I can play against it, and it can play against itself. I'm adding TascBoard stuff to it at the moment, since I have that board, will be nice. Ahh well ... it's just a hobby for me, to keep me off the streets, I'm not trying to create another monster for you guys, I don't think I'll ever have the &^% to release it! Groetjes, Paul
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