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Subject: Re: Some questions to chess programmers

Author: José Carlos

Date: 23:54:49 11/11/01

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On November 11, 2001 at 23:29:35, Aloisio Ponti Lopes wrote:

  The answers of another amateur chess programmer:

>My questions:
>
>1) What's your impression of the Unix market for Chess?
>(UnixWare/SCO/AIX/IRIX/Solaris/NetBSD/OpenBSD/FreeBSD/HP-UX/Digital-Unix)
>Would you consider a port of your program for Unix?
>2) What's your impression of the Linux market for Chess?
>Would you consider a port of your program for Linux?

  Linux is just another Unix. I'm a beginner in Linux world, but I want to
learn. Then, I'll sure port my engine to run on Linux.

>3) What do you think about the AMD x Intel struggle?

  AMD is cheaper and, for my pusposes, it works faster.

>4) Would you consider optimizing the code to run your program using an Alpha
>processor?

  I don't know anything about Alpha.

>5) Do you agree with Microsoft's idea of "Software Activation" ? Would it be
>aplicable to the Unix / Linux World ?

  Nope.

>6) What's your impression about 3D graphics and Chess? What about the multimedia
>resources? Aren't both 3d and multimedia neglected nowadays?

  I like 2D chess boards. If I could play in 2D boards in human tournamets, I'd
do. :)

  José C.

>A. Ponti



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