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Subject: Re: Rexchess

Author: José Carlos

Date: 06:34:16 01/09/04

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On January 09, 2004 at 07:09:17, F. Huber wrote:

>On January 09, 2004 at 06:39:19, Thorsten Czub wrote:
>
>>On January 08, 2004 at 18:06:15, Dann Corbit wrote:
>>
>>>On January 08, 2004 at 17:57:58, Tom Likens wrote:
>>>
>>>>On January 08, 2004 at 12:51:06, José Carlos wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>  Having a look at the search engine I found a post about Rexchess. I recall it
>>>>>searching really deep in my old 286. And I mean deep, like 9 or 10 plies. Is
>>>>>there any documentation about its search techniques anywhere? It's old and
>>>>>problably its search is really outdated, so maybe its secrets are public...
>>>>>
>>>>>  José C.
>>>>
>>>>Jose,
>>>>
>>>>Do a search on messages posted by "Don Dailey".
>>>>
>>>>regards,
>>>>--tom
>>>
>>>Found a page about it.  In Czech, though.
>>>http://www.multiweb.cz/max.rubin/rex230.htm
>>
>>
>>the problem with older versions of rexchess on fast machines is that
>>the benchmark it starts at the beginning is causing a crash of the program.
>>on today's machine the loop is done too fast and the machine gets a division by
>>sero.
>
>What do you mean by ´older versions´ - I´ve never heared about newer ones!?
>
>But I´ve patched exacatly this benchmark code in the program to run also
>on fast computers of today. Since now RexChess is being available for free,
>I think it would be no problem to give away my patched version. (?)
>(So if somebody wants it ..... ;-))
>
>Regards,
>Franz.

  Since I agree that it should not be a problem frim a legal point of view,
could you please send me your patched version? I love that old jewel...

  José C.



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