Author: Eugene Nalimov
Date: 12:42:33 07/15/04
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On July 15, 2004 at 15:36:47, Ed Schröder wrote: >On July 15, 2004 at 13:21:48, Martin Slowik wrote: > >>Whoops, >> >>lucky me mentioned the name Ed Schroeder only together with the adjective >>'talented'... ;-) Didn't know that you're still around, still being interested >>in computer chess. > >Being retired from competion and commerce doesn't mean my interest has gone >away. > > >>Since I have you here now, if you allow I'd have a question that is nagging me >>(and some other folks who are still playing dedicated chess computers). >>Hopefully you remember the times of the Risc I and II modules for the Mephistos >>roughly... Is there a big difference between the two, i.e. do you remember what >>you changed or to what exent in the later program version? There are people >>thinking that the first version is even stronger than the second, do you believe >>this is possible? > >The Risc-II is 40-50 elo points stronger. I still know it because the difference >was just one instruction. > > > >>>The USCF has about 50,000-60,000 paying members which is quite low if you >>>compare that to pinhead Holland which has about 30,000. >> >>Well, I intentionally didn't mention Fischer and the popularity of chess in the >>US, since I think that this is alomst an exception to the 'Becker-effect'. Okay, >>in the first years Bobby did attract many people but I think the effect would >>have been bigger or have lasted longer in almost any other country. Perhaps this >>is due to the cultural differences between Europe and America: if you can't earn >>a lot of money with a sport/game it gets dropped very quickly by the people >>(even though Fischer changed the salaries of the pros in a very significant way >>- alas it's not comparable to the salaries of basketball players). ;-) >> >>>>in Holland the answer must be related to Euwe... >>> >>>Obviously. But chess was already quite popular here. >> >>Yes, and I think even the extent nowadays is astonishing. > >>But what I don't get is the lack of russian chess engine programmers. They have >>both, excellent chess players and very good programmers - but so far no top >>engine if I'm not mistaken. > >I agree, the lack off Russian chess programmers is unexplainable. Does several percent of code in majority of strong chess engines count as at least one engine? :-) Thanks, Eugene >My best, > >Ed
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