Author: Jim Bodkins
Date: 11:52:33 06/02/03
As a result of this comment from Da Konig at Leiden .. "I changed only some minor things, I think that it is very difficult to improve the program further. If I start changing things, the program may get weaker". De Koning does not want to play in the world championship this year in Graz. "No, I don´t want to play there, I want to play Amazons with my program in the Olympiad, take a look at the chess games and relax a bit. A world championship is a lottery. However, I think that my program would play very well there, it is a strong program, of course." ... it appears that TheKing is no longer intended to be competative but is instead relagated to a role as an appliance. (Maybe that pays better. It seems like a said end to a competative engine however). Given the work of people like Schröder, Theoron, Gian-Carlo Pascutto, Morsch, Kalen-Mayer, Per-Ola Valfridsson, Stefan Zipproth, Fritz Reul and others any feeling of "comfort" will result in retirement. I think I just lost interest in TheKing. Sorry to say that. I would like to begin working with Rebel12beta (as an experiment). I received a comment via email from Loka regarding Rebel12 under the CP UI. (I thought I had seen info regarding Rebel12beta under winboard but cant find it). DeepSjeng shows promise as well. (I would love to work with Gandalf 6, but I'm sure that wont be available until it is released commercially).
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