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Subject: Re: How many professional chess programmers there really is?

Author: fca

Date: 01:28:14 08/06/98

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On August 06, 1998 at 02:40:42, Thorsten Czub wrote:

>I have given up my hope that he comes back into chess-scene.
>
>The first day I saw Ossi Weiner buy Mchess/Nimzo98/Shredder2
>contracts, i knew: richard is out, ossi needs new horses !!!
>
>Anybody said: nono. Richard works on the 32-bit engine.
>
>I wonder for how many years he works on it :-))
>
>Shit. Shit nullmove ! The nullmove killed Richards search.
>
>Will he ever return ? The return of the jedi ?!

No need whatsoever for speculation.

Richard _is_ working seriously and full-time on the 32 bit engine, intended to
be significantly stronger than CG5 on modern hardware. I concede that in terms
of pure playing strength (ignoring books), the difference between say CG5 and
CG3 was not more than between R8 and R9. Richard is well aware of these sorts of
views.  That is why there is a delay.  When it arrives, and I believe it is not
imminent, the intention is to depose Fritz from the top of the list.  Richard
has been #1 for *far* longer than anyone else.  Underestimating him or his
persistence may be unwise, therefore!

BTW it is I/O (for a _true_ Windows product, unlike CG5 for Windows) that is
also slowing down development.

If you have any "chessic suggestions" you would like Richard to read, Jedi
Master or not, please post them here in CCC.

Kind regards

fca

PS: Do not worry, Thorsten, re "marketing suggestions".  The next Genius engine
is surely not going to be sold as a module for Fritz.  :-)



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