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Subject: Re: Rexchess

Author: Tord Romstad

Date: 04:27:38 01/10/04

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On January 10, 2004 at 00:07:33, Dann Corbit wrote:

>On January 09, 2004 at 12:39:58, Tord Romstad wrote:
>
>>On January 08, 2004 at 17:57:58, Tom Likens wrote:
>>
>>>Do a search on messages posted by "Don Dailey".
>>
>>Does anyone know what Don is doing these days?  He used to be one of the most
>>interesting contributors to this forum, but I haven't seen him post here for
>>several years ...
>
>Don got married in July of 2000.  He had plans to retire from the University and
>pursue family and spiritual goals.  He had interest at the time of our last
>correspondence to at least pursue chess programming as a hobby.

When was this last correspondence?  Do you think there is a chance that
we will see a new (free or commercial) engine from Don some day?

>He felt that the message boards caused him to waste a lot of time.

Sad to hear.  At least the time he spent here was not wasted from the
community's point of view -- I am sure I am not the only person here who
have learnt a lot from Don.

>I suspect that most of his programming efforts would be just tinkering on
>his own.
>
>Definitely a wonderful person that I admire.

I agree entirely.

Tord



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