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Subject: Re: Spracklen team, Hirsch, Martin Bryant, Wittington, Lang, etc

Author: Thorsten Czub

Date: 03:15:24 05/06/02

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On May 06, 2002 at 02:59:53, Slater Wold wrote:

>I think you're right on here.  Computer chess has gotten 'boring' to me in the
>last 3 years.  Nothing big, nothing exciting.  15 more Elo here, 10 more here.

i know what you mean. but i think you have not bought hiarcs8, right ?
hiarcs8 is a different animal. all others are equal-.



>When these guys were around, you're talking 100+ leaps in Elo and knowledge they
>never thought possible.  Now it's just cleaner code, and more efficient pruning.
> Gets kind boring.

right. but maybe there are no new things to event anymore ??

maybe such a jump is not possible anymore.


>On a side note Lang is STILL creating chess software.  Perhaps he thought of the
>Palms and PocketPCs as the new challenge he needed.

maybe. is he creative ? i thought he sold his roma program. so what is creative
with selling old software ?!



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