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Subject: Re: Whatever happened to crafty clone Bionic

Author: Michael Cummings

Date: 03:57:19 02/05/03

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On February 05, 2003 at 06:51:08, Hans van der Zijden wrote:

>On February 05, 2003 at 06:40:02, Michael Cummings wrote:
>
>>Someone did that and called the crafty program Bionic, whatever happen to it?
>
>That was Hans Secelle from Belgium. For years he tried to make his Basic program
>Bionic (Believe It Or Not It's Checkmate) strong enough to compete in the Dutch
>open. When he did not succeed he decided to make changes to Crafty naming it
>Bionic Crafty and he competed with that. Some programmers were not so happy with
>that, so he only competed once. Than he joined forces with Tom Vijlbrief
>programmer from Ant. This team competed in every Dutch computertournament the
>last couple of years.
>
>Hans.

I remember a time here when the debate was on, because Boinic was winning things
and they would not admitt it was crafty with a few changes. I think Bob at the
time was very pissed, but was also very diplomatic. It was also the time when
people kept asking Bob why he should not sell his stuff instead of it being open
source. Those were endless question in this forum.



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