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Subject: Re: dewit 3.0

Author: Will Singleton

Date: 16:33:13 12/10/98

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On December 10, 1998 at 16:22:58, Peter de Wit wrote:

>Just a few quick things for those of you who care.  dewit is about 1.5 years in
>the making, starting off playing about 1500 blitz (ICC) and now playing about
>2400 and has gone well above 2600 at times.  The first version ran on a P133
>32mb of ram, recently running on a PII 266, 32mb of ram.  It plays a very strong
>game against computers, and less so against human.  Anything under 4 minutes if
>plays very well compared to the opponent, and has a 8-9-4 record against crafty.
> It makes use of EGTB's, but still the older, larger versions.  Opening book is
>50kb, moes taken from a few chess books I have at home.  I sadly don't have much
>time to work on it right now, so version 3.1 will be out soom, which will fix my
>resume game bug, and then it will likely be some time before any newer versions
>are out.

Nice to hear from you.  But forgive me, I don't quite understand this business
about using Crafty to finish your adjourned games.  If you have a bug in your
resume-game code, why not just fix it?  Certainly you've been able to resume
games in the past.

But more than that, you risk your credibility if you do that sort of thing.
That's just my opinion, of course, and perhaps you and others might see it
differently.  And maybe it's just not that important to you.  But you say that
you've spent a long time developing this program, and that it's grown from a
weak player to a strong one, so I would think it's integrity would be important.

I'm not attacking you at all, I just honestly don't understand it.  Perhaps this
is an accepted practice that I'm not aware of.  I know there are several
accounts that use several different programs, but none of these are accounts run
by the author of the program.

Will



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