Author: Don Dailey
Date: 08:22:26 01/18/99
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On January 18, 1999 at 08:03:55, Fernando Villegas wrote: >Dear Don: >Thanks for your exprression about me being one of the best members. I am not. I >post little, not very "pertinent" posts many times, full of "literary flowery >but little else" as Prakash said, etc. But the point is this: I love to be here >and there. Why some kind of "this OR that" should exist? >Of course I respect the rest of people here precisely because I am not a guy of >rules. I have defended once and again people accused of being harsh, etc. I am >older than almots all of you Don, and so I have reached that stage in life where >you get a lot more amudsement looking you brothers chatting, discussing and >fighting each other that anything else. And I love to see that in this frame, >chess computers. Besides, believe me that if enough people thinks better to >divide this CCC in two parts, I will support it. It is just my opinion that >wouldn't be good. A root would be cutted. This will empoverish CCC, IHMO. >And now a little bit of chess to keep the appeareances: what about Cilk chess? >There will be a day we, humble people with PC, will have the option to own one? >Greetings from the Madhouse >Fernando Yes, there is plenty of room on this group for our natural diversity, and we do not have to be each just like the other. I seek to find the most natural balance. At one time I believed this group was a very technical one and tried to treat it as such. But it is a mixture of types and like you have said, I can find a corner of the room to go and talk about this or that depending on my mood. I will try to respect these differences and you may have noticed I very often do not confine even myself to pure computer chess. I have considered a public domain version of CilkChess. It probably would be based on a separate program and would be stronger than Cilkchess on Pentiums and weaker on the more advanced 64 bit platforms. But right now I am not very happy with the strength of Cilkchess and would even be embarrassed to show it to the public. Bruce is pestering me to play against Ferret on the internet but I am hesitating for the same reason. Chickenheartedness. Maybe after we win the World Chess Championship this June my confidence will be bolstered :-) Actually, I have made a lot of progress towards releasing a public domain program and have a complete but still a baby chess program. - Don
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