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Subject: Re: To Steven Schwartz

Author: Dann Corbit

Date: 18:45:11 01/18/99

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On January 18, 1999 at 11:22:26, Don Dailey wrote:
[snip]
>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.
Sounds Cilky-smooth to me.  But I have a few questions.  First, is there an
avaiable Cilk compiler for:
1.  Intel Pentium class
or
2.  Alpha
or
3.  VAX
?
so that mere mortals can compile it?  Or would you be switching to posix threads
or???

Finally, have you ever tried Cilkchess on a loaded Connection Machine or one of
those frightful things that got sold to the pentagon with a bazillion Intel
chips in it?  Or that new IBM bazillion mips monster?




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