Author: Frank Quisinsky
Date: 15:49:15 05/24/01
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On May 24, 2001 at 18:26:38, David Rasmussen wrote: >I wrote this to Frank Q: > >Hey Frank! > >I'm pretty touched about all the attention you have given my program, and the >way that you have spread it to so many people. > >I didn't think that it would get so much attention, because it's really not a >very good engine yet, IMO. All my energy is going into the new version, which >wont be finished quite yet. But with all the attention that ones engine gets >when it is released, I really am considering using a week on fine-tuning version >0.88 and make a version 0.89, which would then be the final version before >version 1.0 > >Because with relative little effort, version 0.88 could be made a good deal >stronger; it does have some rather experimental evaluation terms etc. at the >moment. For example, it will sometimes place a knight on a3 in the opening, or >block a center pawn with Bd3 or something ugly like that. It has eval-terms to >deal with this, but as I said, the evaluation in this version is not polished, >so some values are set to somewhat weird values. > >I can't wait to finish version 1.0 :) > >---------------------- > >I just wanted to say thanks to the people here that have had the guts to >download the engine and try it out etc. make a good place ! Hello David, nice to read your message. Your engine is WinBoard Engine with number "100" ! So I hope that ... 01. You have a long time fun on computer chess and make a lot of updates :-) 02. We get a new Gandalf ... better an Chezzz "ODIN" :-) We all like the amateur programs and I think we must say thanks. OK, enough ... Good luck with CCT3, Denmark power is not bad for this tourney ! Best Frank
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