Author: Tord Romstad
Date: 01:29:28 12/23/02
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On December 22, 2002 at 19:02:44, Thorsten Czub wrote: >On December 22, 2002 at 17:52:10, Uri Blass wrote: > >>I do not think that knowledge is the reason for chess system tal's failure. >>I do not think that knowledge is a reason not to search deeper because knowledge >>can help for better pruning rules. > >right. chess system tal was not losing at times it was made due to beeing >outsearched. It also was always very succesful in playing out a good position. > > >>chess system tal has simply bugs. > >right. >and since the development did not continued, those bugs are still in the >program. I find it very sad that so many of the leading chess programmers (Chris Whittington, Marty Hirsch, Dave Kittinger, the Spracklens, ...) leave computer chess, and equally sad that so few of them publish their sources when they leave. I am sure there are lots of interesting ideas hidden in CSTal, MChess and WChess, and I think the computer chess community would greatly benefit from learning about them. >i guess that chris was bored by the computerchess scene. >he wrote or worked on chinese chess or other stuff (go ?!). Shogi (the Japanese version of chess), IIRC. Tord
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