Author: Dirk Frickenschmidt
Date: 03:23:10 11/05/98
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On November 05, 1998 at 02:20:36, Ed Schröder wrote: Hi Ed, is it still a secret or can you tell us with whom you will cooperate in doing so? Sounds like an interesting project... Regards from Dirk >> 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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