Author: John Merlino
Date: 21:19:25 11/28/02
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On November 28, 2002 at 17:37:36, Mike Byrne wrote: ><well written points deleted> > >John, > >You are absolutley correct. The folks that hang out here (and I include myself >in this category) are a little bit over the edge. Most folks here have >extremely high end machines -- I used to get a kick of your "humble 600 Mhz" >line when testing positions. I consider my machine out of date after one year - >it's a dual 1.7 Ggz with 512 MB ram. I go for the high end and then try to keep >it for 3 years - maybe. > >The truth is John, we all got spoiled by your presense here. We will never get >a communication channel again that again from a high volume seller like UbiSoft >(IMO). Your ability to listen and make things happens for us computer chess >geeks with product like CM9K was like Christmas for all of us. (Pick your >favorite Holiday if not Christian). > >Take care of yourself and God bless. > >Mike Many many thanks. I did my best, and I'm very pleased that it was appreciated. Shortly after I first came to this board, I got the idea that CM should support the Winboard protocol. I pitched it to the decision makers for the program at that time, and it was approved. I think that is probably the most important contribution I ever made to the program (at least as far as you geeks are concerned) :-). Adding Swiss tournaments, EGTB support, writing the mating exercises, getting CMLive to work on UbiSoft servers were also important additions (not to mention just getting the product out the door on time and on budget!), but I really like that I can plug in any Winboard engine and see how it does against The King. But, I cannot take any credit for actually implementing the protocol itself. That was done by a very good programmer named James Stoddard. His implementation, as shown by Thomas Meyer, was extremely good for a first attempt, and we only had to make a very few small adjustments in a patch to make it perfect. Just about the only thing that some users say is missing is "full analysis" support, but that is the "fault" of the CM GUI in general -- not in the Winboard implementation. Once again, many thanks for the kind words.... jm
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