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Subject: Re: Computer Chess Worldwide

Author: Martin Slowik

Date: 13:02:04 07/15/04

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>>>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.

Hm, a tad cryptic to me: you mean you erased the
"for (int i=0; i<100000; i++) ;"
line? ;-) (translated to C)

>>>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? :-)

In my opinion it actually counts as 2 of 'em. But why haven't you ever tried to
program a real "third" one, Eugene? :-)

Sincerly,
Martin



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