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Subject: Re: How do you effectively dumb down an engine? (some suggestions)

Author: Vincent Diepeveen

Date: 06:51:54 04/19/04

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On April 19, 2004 at 08:06:16, Steve Maughan wrote:

>John,
>
>>>However, back to my main point - IMHO 99.999% of Winboard / UCI engines are
>>>not that concerned about making a weak engine (I'm certainly not) - so
>>>hopefully we can get some dialogue going and share some ideas.
>
>>Fair enough. But if you are "not that concerned" about making a weak engine,
>>then why are you interested in supporting this feature? Just as an exercise?
>>Or are you only interested in discussing how it would be done?
>
>Since Monarch has <1% of going commercial the whole project is mainly an
>interlectual exercise.  I just thought that this area may be one with less
>programmer secrecy and therefore more openness  - maybe I was wrong.
>
>Regards,
>
>Steve

Yes you are wrong.

This even though weakening an engine when putting effort into it really is a
peanut :)



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