Author: Uri Blass
Date: 12:08:19 08/07/03
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On August 07, 2003 at 14:56:31, Djordje Vidanovic wrote: >On August 07, 2003 at 13:33:21, Uri Blass wrote: > >>except developing chess systen tal. >> >>I thought that this guy left computer chess and in the time that he was involved >>in it he did not help other people by advices but I read in >>http://www.math.uio.no/~romstad/gothmog/gothmog.html that he was one of the >>people who helped the author in the developement of gothmog or by direct advice >>or by through explanation of his algorithms and data structures, or by >>publishing his source code. >> >>Uri > > >Chris Whittington has done a lot of creative work in computer chess. And even >then when he was being sarcastic and "rebellious" he contributed to this Forum >with his ideas. I did not know it. I joined to the forum only after he left and I knew him mainly as a trouble maker. There was a time when I discussed about ideas in his forum and at some stage he decided to delete all of the posts there. I know that he did not release his source code and I do not remember through explanation of his algorithms and data structures and talking about ideas is not the same. His greatest contribution is, of course, his excellent program >Chess System Tal which is going to be unique in the computer chess world for >years to come. Thus your heading that you are surprised to read, etc. does not >make ANY sense to me. Bear in mind that he wrote a very good chess program for >the Spectrum Sinclar computer back then when you may not have been born, in >1983. Sorry, but I am just guessing what your age is... > >Djordje You guess wrong but it is not important. I did not know that he wrote a chess program in 1983 and I never heard of the spectrum sinclar computer. Uri
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