Author: Djordje Vidanovic
Date: 11:25:56 10/27/03
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On October 27, 2003 at 12:27:08, Christophe Theron wrote: >On October 27, 2003 at 07:17:09, Alastair Scott wrote: > >>On October 27, 2003 at 01:34:31, Christophe Theron wrote: >> >>>All these records belong to Richard Lang. >>> >>>Nobody will *EVER* equal these records. >>> >>>It was a long time ago, so you may have forgotten. >>> >>>We have not forgotten. >> >>Very generous comments! > > > >That's the simple truth. > >Reading about the achievements of current amateur programmers who have access to >public domain source code about almost every aspect of the chess programming >techniques makes me laugh. > >It's going to take a lot more than "being best freeware chess engine" (what does >that mean anyway?) or "out of nowhere, made a good place at the SSDF" to impress >me. > >Some people seem to have a pathologically shortsighted memory, or do not really >know what they are talking about... > > > > Christophe > > > > > >>A "problem" with Richard Lang is his beta test versions; never mind the release >>versions, these are sound! I've felt obliged to say "can you put some deliberate >>mistakes in so I can find _something_?" ;) >> >>(Disclaimer: I have never beta-tested any other chess software. But I have >>beta-tested all sorts of other types of software). >> >>Alastair Agreed! Lang is a personal hero of mine too, to borrow the expression. Even now, with all the chess software lying around I still best playing against my Nokia Chess Genius 1.1, which is no pansy at all! (Dann Corbit and I debated this expression back in 1997...) Probably more than 2250 ELO or even higher! On a mere Arm running at 100 Mhz... Eduard Nemeth wrote a very interesting article on Lang, his programs and the latest batch of Pocket PC Genius versions, including the Nokia 7650/3650 versions of Chess Genius. But the old flame was Cyrus for the Sinclair Spectrum :). No other program that came later, apart from the dedicated Super Connie by Kittinger, attracted me so much to computer chess. Djordje
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