Author: Ulrich Tuerke
Date: 04:03:52 02/05/03
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On February 05, 2003 at 06:57:19, Michael Cummings wrote: >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 It had been called BIONIC IMPACT iirc. >>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. As far as I had understood, that's wrong. Hans had announced early before start of the tournament that he was going to use a program which had been a kind of merge of his evaluation and crafty's search. Nobody had complained. Complains just started after Bionic began winning most of its games. That's a bit late, imho. I think that Hans had behaved correctly. Uli > 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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