Author: Adam Oellermann
Date: 01:55:47 06/23/02
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On June 23, 2002 at 04:42:33, Sven Reichard wrote: >Yesterday I wrote a rudimentary xboard-2 interface and a naive time management >scheme, and Alice played its first couple of games with GnuChess 4. Result: >Alice crashed twice, the other games went 8-0-0 for GnuChess, as expected. >(Well, technically GnuChess lost one game on time, but that doesn't count...) >So after about 2 years of slow development I have something like a chess >program! :) > >It was nice to watch them play, and it gave me some hints on what to work on >next (in this order): >- investigate those crashes (I know where one of them comes from) >- pawn structure (Alice doesn't know a thing about it) >- king safety >- deal with the horizon effect > >Alice is a fully object oriented program developed under GNU/Linux. It's written >in Standard C++, so should be easily portable. At some point (maybe 2002 Q4) I >plan to publish the sources and hook it up to FICS, just if anybody is >interested. > >I know that this isn't half as exciting for you as it is for me, but I wanted to >share it anyways. > >Cheers, >Sven. Congrats Sven! Many here know the joy of watching you creation play; wondering anxiously what it'll do in a tricky position, and fuming when it does exactly what you've just programmed it not to. Stick with it - one day perhaps Alice'll get her own back. Adam
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