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Subject: Re: El Chinito, lol !

Author: gerold daniels

Date: 16:31:03 01/20/05

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On January 20, 2005 at 10:42:40, Thorsten Czub wrote:

>On January 20, 2005 at 10:28:05, Matthias Gemuh wrote:
>
>>On January 20, 2005 at 08:30:44, Thorsten Czub wrote:
>>
>>>is this an insider joke ?
>>
>>
>>
>>The Crafty clone is no more an issue in the scene.
>>Why should someone want to beta test it ? ;)
>>
>>/Matthias.
>
>chinito is no crafty clone.
>he used parts of crafty. this is what many (amateur-)programmers do
>from time to time to TRY OUT things, or to be lazy concerning certain
>areas ... but after a time of experience those programmers mostly throw the
>parts from crafty overboard because they found them inefficient.
>
>IMO a crafty clone is something different. when somebody takes the whole
>program, changes a few things and comes with HIS name instead of crafty.
>
>with chinito or Eugen it is different.
>eugen was a strong program long before crafty code was implemented.
>
>As long as chinito plays different then crafty of course people would like to
>betatest it.
>
>IMO you are shallow when you make your jokes.
>but you can continue like this, of course.
>
>for me chinito (or eugen) are interesting programs and of course i do like to
>test them and this because the programmer, eugenio castillo gives the programs
>something unique that has nothing to do with crafty source code. if crafty would
>have "this", i would test crafty too. but this is not the case.

good evening thorsten have you been testing chinito is it stronger than any of
the crafty programs.
good luck.

gerold.



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