Author: Vincent Diepeveen
Date: 04:30:01 01/17/04
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On January 15, 2004 at 23:09:30, Keith Evans wrote: >On http://go.computer.free.fr/go-computer/threads.html (I think that there’s a >newer site now) Christian "Chrilly" Donninger apparently made some statements >which make me ask the question - did chessbase cancel further development of >brutus after Graz? The answer is: YES OF COURSE No one with 1% commercial insight disagrees with that decision from CB. Its chances to win a world title one day are completely irrelevant from the decision criteria. If world champ 2003 would not have been held in Graz i'm sure it would have been cancelled nearly a year before. This doesn't mean that Chrilly has to stop with it. Look, i know many programs where people continue working on without getting paid. It still joins the 2 most important tournaments. Paderborn 2004 it will show up as Hydra under United Arab Emirates flag and probably world champs 2004 in Tel Aviv too. Knowing how Chrilly works, probably 0 efforts are done to improve the program, and all time goes to 9x9 GO. Seems Hydra has a new openingsbookcreator though. >Was this discussed here already? > >See below: > >From : "chrilly" < chrilly@xxxxxxxx > >Date : Thu, 4 Dec 2003 21:49:46 +0100 > >Dear Vincent, > >>Yes Chrilly, you are correct. You work for the company chessbase. >I worked till last sunday for CB. I think this is no shame. Most professional >chess programmers work now for CB, because CB is a quasi-monopol and it is >difficult to run one´s own bussiness. > >--- >Then in another post he says something which indicates that he will have some >time to work on other things: > >“There are some plans that I write a 9x9 FPGA Go programm. This is yet not >fixed, it depends on the result of the negotiations with a potential investor >(I can not finance such a project from my own pocket. Especially I would not be >able to produce a few thousand Go-cards).”
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