Author: Cliff Sears
Date: 09:12:32 08/18/04
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On August 17, 2004 at 22:55:27, Lin Harper wrote: >On August 17, 2004 at 19:40:19, Cliff Sears wrote: > >>TC >> >>I found my copy M-Chess 7.1 that I had from a few years back. I never used it >>much as I found the interface a little awkward. >> >>I know you have posted on this program before, but what is your guess on how it >>would match up against other engines today? >> >>Any chance you know the author and can convince him to rewrite it or let other >>rewrite it into a Winboad engine? >> >>:-) > I remember talking to the author of M-Chess on the World Chess Network one >day. I asked him if he had any intentions of developing his program at any time >and he said it was possible, just that there are more important issues in the >meantime. His name is Marty Hirsch, IIRC. You may like to drop into the World >Chess Network, and you may catch him. He is one of the partners in the business, >I believe, and seems a nice enough guy. > We must appreciate that a commercial chess programmer's first responsibility >is to his family, and he must go where the profit is best. I doubt that is in >chess programming. > regards > Lin >PS I was never an owner of M-Chess, preferred Genius back in those days. I understand. It just seems a shame that all those years of work and seven versions are going to waste. Kind of like most of us felt about REBEL before it was converted. Maybe he could sell his engine to, say, Chessbase, and let them do the converting. A homage to the pioneers in this niche.
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