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Subject: Re: I am surprised to read that Chris Whittington did something product

Author: Alastair Scott

Date: 23:41:51 08/07/03

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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.

This is good. Chess System Tal was a most unsound but entertaining opponent, and
anything to get away from my "horror scenario" of the computer chess world
championship in five years time:

Game 1:

White departure from book on move 27 of a Sicilian Scheveningen, leading by a
long forced sequence to entry into a six-game tablebase position at move 118 and
checkmate at move 151 (total calculation time 0.32 seconds).

Game 2:

World audience of five people observed to be, without exception, asleep at their
keyboards.

Alastair



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