Author: Rolf Tueschen
Date: 04:50:31 06/23/04
CSTal was a wonderful program and still is. Because it proves that sometimes good theories get bad results if they get tested at the wrong time! In addition to the "pearls-before-swine" debate between Glanzfeld & Tueschen we could well demonstrate how the theory of Chris Whittington, lost son of CCC and computerchess as such, could be wrong today but good tomorrow. Today we have a dominating hardware influence which means that too much knowledge input with comparably too much time consuming makes programs weaker (CSTal). But if hardware influence hits the ceiling and further increasing couldn't give more strength a smart and crafty program like CSTal could well become a hit in a modernized form of course. Because if time-comsuming merry-go-rounds become possible to hardware development but a straight coding no longer gets the direct proportional advantages a program idea like CSTal could be the testd (!) top model and new state of the art. I say this in special in direction of Glanzfeld - with a little ulterior motive.
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