Author: Tord Romstad
Date: 05:37:30 08/08/03
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On August 08, 2003 at 04:38:07, Thorsten Czub wrote: >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 :-)) Not quite. There is one fundamental difference. The Christians are 100% sure that Jesus will one day be resurrected, while I admit that the chance that CST will be resurrected is infinitesimal at best. :-) >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 ... Sounds funny, yes. :-) >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. Yes, but we should still be happy that some of the top programmers contribute on forums like this. The signal-to-noise ratio here is not that bad. >Tournaments are very important for canalyzing this HEAT into something >senseful. > >In older times we had more tournaments. As Uri pointed out, there are lots of tournaments for Winboard and UCI engines of all strengths. I get a handful of tournament games almost every day. Surprisingly many are even played at slow time controls. >I am looking forward to your program, as i told you. Just make sure you don't have too high expectations. It is nowhere near as strong or as interesting as CST, at least not yet. >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 :-)) Something like 20-25 degrees and sunny weather here in Oslo. Very nice. I think I should go out and enjoy the weather instead of sitting here in my office. Bye! Tord
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