Author: Tony Werten
Date: 13:17:15 12/11/02
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On December 11, 2002 at 13:44:55, Richard Pijl wrote: >>>For any of these questions you will get a different ranking. As I don't know all >>>games and certainly don't know the status in the programming of these games I >>>can't answer your question for all of them though. Perhaps the easiest to answer >>>would be ranking number 2. I think Vincent already did that. >>> >>>Richard. >> >>I do not know but I automatically do not believe things that vincent say. >>He need to apologize about a lot of things that he said. > >These are two different things. I try to keep emotions separated from what is >meant to be said. By quoting Vincent here I meant that I agree with him (at >least for the games that I know, which are Chess, Go and Othello). > >> >>For example he said that verified null move is even worse than R=2 and based on >>hyatt's report it worked in crafty. > >That has nothing to do with _this_ subject > >>I think that maybe it is a mistake to develop a chess program if the effort of >>chess programmers is bigger than the effort of go programmers because I see no >>reason to assume that it is possible to earn more from chess programs than from >>go programs but unfortunately chess is the only game out of these games that I >>know and I do not like the idea of programming for a game that I know almost >>nothing about. >> > >Chess programming is an addictive hobby for most. Mostly because we like >programming and chess. I do not expect to earn more from programming a chess >program than for solving a 5000 pieces jig-saw puzzle. I even pay for it as I >keep my hardware up to date, subscribe to ICC and also took ADSL to connect to >it. All just for chess. Does that make me a fool? Yes. Welcome. Tony > >Richard
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