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Subject: CSTal resurrected :-))

Author: Thorsten Czub

Date: 01:38:07 08/08/03

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On August 07, 2003 at 18:18:47, Tord Romstad wrote:
>>as far as i remember it, it was me saving the sources regularly.

>You still have the sources somewhere, I hope?  I would like to continue
>believing that there is at least an infinitesimal chance that CST will
>be resurrected some day ...
>
>Tord

Sounds like christians believing in Jesus :-))

The source code of ChessSystemTal is something very unique
(because of the magnificent comments of the programmer team talking via
REM lines with each other).

As you maybe know Chris had a team of many programmers, some working
on the GUI, meanwhile chris did the creative part of the chess engine.
But sometimes the programmers had to interact and since they were all very
different it was amusing to see how this worked.
Chris tried out many things and the source code is full of funny
remarks telling Chris not to edit here, not to change there ...


I met them personally and often talked with them via telephone, fax
or later email.

In his small company chris had at least 3 or 4 autoplayer-pairs running
against genius, fritz, mchess, hiarcs.

I have no idea what chris is doing at the moment.
He is not the first intelligent person leaving the scene.
Remember that Julio Kaplan, Thomas Nitsche and Marty Hirsch left for various
reasons.

IMO the programmers should more often let their programs fight against each
other instead of insulting each other in newsgroups. same for the fans.

Tournaments are very important for canalyzing this HEAT into something senseful.

In older times we had more tournaments.

I am looking forward to your program, as i told you.

In the moment it is very hot in germany and testing with computers is really
painful :-)).

When temperatures in a room increase from 30 degree celsius to arround
35-37 its not anymore funny to do computerchess :-))





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