Author: Uri Blass
Date: 15:32:54 06/19/04
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On June 19, 2004 at 17:24:45, Jorge Pichard wrote: >On June 19, 2004 at 16:31:55, Uri Blass wrote: > >>On June 19, 2004 at 14:44:47, Jorge Pichard wrote: >> >>>On June 19, 2004 at 09:52:55, Ziad Haddad wrote: >>> >>>Almost all these participants will run on their newer Beta, but the 1st and 2nd >>>place finishers will probably become commercials in a few months later :-) >>> >>> >>> >>>A. Ban and S. Bushinsky Junior Israel >>>U. Blass Movei Israel >>>R. Coulom The Crazy Bishop France >>>O. David Tabibi Falcon Israel >>>V. Diepeveen Diep Netherlands >>>G.B.Garcia FIBChess Spain >>>J. Hamlen Woodpusher 1997 United Kingdom >>>R. Huber ParSOS Germany >>>R. Hyatt Crafty USA >>>G. Isenberg IsiChess Germany >>>S. Meyer-Kahlen Shredder Germany >>>F. Morsch and M. Feist Fritz Netherlands / Germany >>>G.C. Pascutto Deep Sjeng Belgium >>>J. Zwanzger Jonny Germany >> >>Some questions: >> >>1)What is the meaning of 1997 in woodpusher 1997? >>Does it suggest that the program is from 1997 or only misleading information? > >It is probably the year when woodpusher was released. > > >>2)Did somebody hear something about FIBchess? >>I know nothing about it's level so maybe it can be the champion because I >>believe that programs are generally weak relative to what is possible to >>achieve(this is the reason that I started chess programming but I am not a good >>programmer so movei is even weaker than weak). >> >>I believe that if a good programmer with very good ideas starts to work >>seriously about chess programming then it is possible in one year to be at least >>100 elo better than shredder8 and every time that I read about a new program >>that I heard nothing about it I suspect that it is possible that the program is >>the best. > >There was a project that started 2 years ago, and the idea was to reunite a few >good programmers and develop the best chess program. The project was not a >sucess. Never heard of that project but I guess that they did not choose the right people. Fruit is an example of a program that is developed by a good programmer and inspite of the fact that it still does not have king safety evaluation and Fabian still did not work on improving the search and it is already almost at the level of Crafty. I believe that a good programmer with significantly better ideas than fabian can do it. Uri
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