Author: Thorsten Czub
Date: 04:43:20 12/20/01
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i don't think computerchess dies. IMO we are in the moment seeing interesting developments. the paradigm changes. century4 plays different chess than century3. junior7 plays different chess than junior6a. gambit-tiger plays different chess than rebel-tiger. don't you see. the program shift their behaviour. and mostly the result is a better quality of chess. even fritz7 has to adapt otherwise it will lose against the new paradigm programs. userinterfaces become boring and uninteresting because all chess base programs HAVE THE SAME interface. this is a kind of LACK OF VARIATY problem i told about years ago. it cannot be FOR the customers to present any chess program in the same interface. it can only make the market less interesting. the same for the HOW they play. we lost many on the way. people who were in charge for making computerchess INTERESTING. We lost Thomas Nitsche, Julio Kaplan, Marty Hirsch, Mark Uniacke, Chris Whittington, ... of course this makes the computerchess community boring. Because these people gave something. they gave different ideas. Different ways to go. I don't think computerchess dies. but we have to take care we do not lose even more people for the god of commercialisation. making money and computerchess is a two sided sword. i would be glad to see dave k. and others come back and contribute something to the community.
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