Author: Eelco de Groot
Date: 17:22:20 09/26/01
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On September 26, 2001 at 16:17:53, Frank Quisinsky wrote: >On September 26, 2001 at 15:38:49, Gian-Carlo Pascutto wrote: > >> >>Just curious. Haven't seen him for a while, >>and the account on ICC doesn't seem to play >>anymore either. >> >>Anyone knows if he (or his program) will attend Leiden 2001? >> >>-- >>GCP > >Hi, > >eMail by James Robertson, >16.09.01 (I believe I can added this mail here for the older beta testers and >Insomniac fans). > >"I'm leaving town for a few days before school starts, so I don't have much >time to write. I'll get back to you when I return. I will say now, though, >that I have not made many changes to Insomniac since the last >tournament. Hopefully soon though...." > >Best >Frank > > >Insomniac comming soon, James have a lot of fun on computer chess and Insomniac >is maybe the best amateur at the moment (OK, latest version is now 1 year old) >but maybe this version is at the moment the best amateur chess program. It is >very important that James work here on his program, in my eyes a super big >talent and a very nice programmer better a very nice young men (I know James >from Leiden). Hello all, I read in the last "Computerschaak", the periodical of the Dutch Computerchess association CSVN, that good old Jan Louwman is giving advice and I think is also testing for James now. Jan Louwman, you could call him the "Godfather" of Dutch computerchess and I mean that entirely in the positive way. You name any programmer who has been successful in the past twenty years and Jan Louwman has been at the beginning of their careers, especially the Dutchies like Ed Schröder, Frans Morsch, Johan de Koning, or helped them a little later in their careers like Richard Lang when he made the transition to Mephisto or Kaare Danielsen programmer of what I think was one of the biggest selling standalones of all time, the Enterprise and Super Enterprise. (I own both but the Super Enterprise only as a remake under the name of "CXG Sphinx Titan". I would have liked a Fidelity Elite or so but that was a bit out of reach for a student's budget). There was a nice picture of Mr. Louwman and his wife on http://www.cs.unimaas.nl/Olympiad/fotos/index.html ,look for picture 12 of the Maastricht tournament chess players photo gallery there. By the way also great pictures are the last four in the list, 15 to 18. Do we recognize "Rebel" Ed, "Diep" Vincent and yes, with orange juice in hand and in, Thorsten has made jokes enough about it, the all-american T-shirt, looking completely the dedicated sportsman there, it must be Bruce himself! Totally great! Eelco
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