Author: Thorsten Czub
Date: 15:51:16 08/05/98
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On August 05, 1998 at 17:28:04, Fernando Villegas wrote: >a) Chris W. is considered a professional chess programmer, but he is more the >owner of a company dedicated to many games and many other non-games software and >in fact he does not even dedicate all time to work in chess engines, as the >slowness of CSTAL to be delivered show, although there were also the effects of >developping an entirely new engine, or he tried to do so at least. But then, >seeing how a fraction of his entire time as programmer is dedicated to chess as >such, he is then not a professional chess programmer? I think he is although he >does not dedicate fully to it. No - I am his slave and I am doing full-time for him :-))) >b) Or take Christophe Theron: he does not use all his time to develop Tiger >neither has a developed distribution system, etc, but it would be difficult to >describe him as just an amateur. ?!?!?!? Why isn't he an amateur ?! he is. And his program grows stronger and stronger. Maybe next championship, he wins. We will see...
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