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Subject: About open systems, engines, and another approach...

Author: Ed Schröder

Date: 23:20:36 11/04/98


> Imperialism mainly existed because when country's gained new territories and
>lands, what they were actually gaining is "Future Markets".  The U.S was a late
>comer but tried to get guam, phillipines, and dilligently worked to make south
>american countries markets even if they weren't colonized (The Monroe
>Doctrine).
> Ed you must grab hold of what's left or you will have no future market.
>Engines left, Ferret, the King, M-chess, Chess tiger.  Maybe you can get some
>others but i don't know if that's a problem since they are already making
>engines for millenium and chessbase.  Rebel simply having previous engines of
>rebel doesn't inspire anyone :(.  I had hoped that you could have grabbed hold
>of hiarcs.

I like the concept of "engines" very much and it's a nice extra promotion
for the basic program in question. Still the "engine" system has 2 major
disadvantages:

a) you always see the same GUI;
b) the market for engines is a limited one as most people use only one program.
Of course (b) is not valid here on CCC :-)

I will come up with another approach. At the moment I and another programmer
are exchanging playing strength ideas which the both of us will use in each
others engines. We estimate that it will make both engines a lot stronger.

Next we will split jobs. I will fully concentrate on the "human-comp" approach
(my specialty) and the other programmer will concentrate on the comp-comp
area (his specialty).

I hope we will manage and our expectations are high. We will see.

- Ed -



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