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Subject: Re: Anyone know anything about the program "Chess with an Attitude"?

Author: martin fierz

Date: 00:42:56 08/05/03

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On August 04, 2003 at 14:55:07, Keith Evans wrote:

>A page describing it is at:
>
>http://www.digenetics.com/products/chess/about.htm
>
>They seem to imply a connection with Fogel's work on checkers which is described
>in the book "Blondie24: Playing at the Edge of AI." Is this really true, or is
>this more about grafting something like the Microsoft paperclip onto a chess
>program? I don't know too much about checkers, so maybe Fogel's work doesn't
>even amount to much as far as playing strength goes. (I just got that book as a
>present and haven't read it yet.)

the checkers program "blondie24" is very weak compared to any decent checkers
program out there. the book is an interesting read and all that, but the thing
really can't play checkers! i'd be surprised if it was any different with
chess...

cheers
  martin



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