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Subject: Re: To Martin Fierz, Michael Drexel and Dann Corbit

Author: martin fierz

Date: 01:12:43 01/14/04

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On January 13, 2004 at 09:36:27, Tord Romstad wrote:

>On January 13, 2004 at 07:31:20, martin fierz wrote:
>
>>On January 13, 2004 at 05:10:42, Tord Romstad wrote:
>>
>>[snip]
>>
>>>Not likely.  My engine will never be strong enough that it would be interesting
>>>to participate in elite events like the WCCC.
>>
>>says who? from gothmog 0.3.1 to 0.4.5 you have improved in leaps and bounds. if
>>you continue like this you will soon be among the top free engines.
>
>It is easier to improve a very weak engine than a moderately strong one,
>of course.  I'm afraid Gothmog will never get much stronger than it is
>today.  The problem is that, unlike you, I am neither a strong chess
>player nor a good programmer.

hehe, being a strong chess player actually seems to be detrimental for your
chess engine :-)
and about the programmer: how would you know who of us is the better
programmer?? yesterday's result suggests it's you: gothmog 0.4.5 - muse 0.878
29-11 (blitz 1'+5'', nunn2-match).

[snip]

>Another "problem" is that I will probably have much less time for chess
>programming this spring, because all the injuries which haunted me
>during the last year finally seems to have healed and I can start
>training again (I still have a tiny hope to qualify for the 400 meters
>in the Norwegian track and field championships next summer).

a word of advice from an old man to a young man (yes, the dividing line *is*
30): don't do it. i ruined my body with too much sports (not that it was much,
but it was too much already), and now i can practically do nothing at all any
more. if you had lots of injuries last year, then your body was trying to tell
you something...

cheers
  martin



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