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

Author: Thorsten Czub

Date: 05:29:31 08/06/98

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On August 06, 1998 at 04:28:14, fca wrote:
>No need whatsoever for speculation.

Aha. Somebody has seen Nessi swimming in Loch Ness.

>Richard _is_ working seriously and full-time on the 32 bit engine,

Die Botschaft hör' ich wohl, allein...

>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.

But thats nonsense FCA. Upgrades / updates by richard were often NO SOFTWARE
progress. Remember all the dedicated machine time, this was only hardware- and
also genius times. There was almost no progress anyway !
How can you relate this with rebel8--->rebel9 , or rebel7--->8 ?!

If you would have said rebel6--->7 I would confirm.
YOu forget the history of Richards programs.

There was often almost NO progress at all. Genius3---> genius4.
Genius4--->5 . Genius 1--->2. etc. Portorosz, almeria, maybe vancouver was a
progress.
Amsterdam to dallas. Almost nothing.

>  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.

:-)))

I have heard from several programmers now, that they only will come out when
they definetely throw fritz5 in the dark and bloody grounds where it belongs !
I see all tribes are reunited ! Thats the best one can imagine. A big enemy all
others fight against :-)))

Good to hear !
I hope it will be before christmas...

>Richard
>has been #1 for *far* longer than anyone else.  Underestimating him or his
>persistence may be unwise, therefore!

I was asking if he is still alive. Worrying if he makes ANY kind of progress.



>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.

My suggestions are not welcomed by Mr. Ossi Weiner. :-))
He is still the opinion that you have to compute "accurate", whatever this
means, he never specified this term...



>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.  :-)

ARGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH - do you want to kill me ?



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