Computer Chess Club Archives


Search

Terms

Messages

Subject: Re: RUFFIAN like BOSTON ? Rolf proudly presents _The_ Genius himself, R.

Author: Graham Laight

Date: 02:01:49 09/24/02

Go up one level in this thread


On September 23, 2002 at 21:39:55, Fernando Villegas wrote:

>Just half a life...Pocket G. program, as you know, is just an adaptation of old
>stuff.
>Richard, as has happened with score of other programmers, simply got bored of
>all this and went for good.

Not completely - he came to the WMCCC at Alexandra Palace in London 2 years ago,
spoke to everyone, and quite freely answered questions that we put to him.

When I discussed his career with him, he told me that he was finding it too
difficult to get Genius to improve - the biggest problem being the perennial
frustration of chess programmers that improving the play in one area made it
worse in another.

-g

>My bst
>Fernando



This page took 0 seconds to execute

Last modified: Thu, 15 Apr 21 08:11:13 -0700

Current Computer Chess Club Forums at Talkchess. This site by Sean Mintz.