Author: Christopher Conkie
Date: 03:02:41 04/11/05
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On April 11, 2005 at 05:51:43, Günther Simon wrote: >On April 11, 2005 at 05:32:06, Christopher Conkie wrote: > >>Hello, >> >>http://xray.bmc.uu.se/~filipe/elturco/ >> >>Who indeed.......is El Turco? >> >>Well El Turco is an engine. It is a Winboard engine. As the author (who is real) >>states it has a striking resemblance to the engine Faile. >> >>I found El Turco some time ago. >> >>I thought I'd better check if I could find any reference to it anywhere. I did >>find something..... >> >>I found only this..... >> >>http://f50.parsimony.net/forum200321/messages/9046.htm >> >>By which I came to this...... >> >>http://kh.soentges.de/gruppeneinteilungen.html (10. Bundesliga) >> >>Toga and the Turk? >> >>I think we have been here before......... >> >>It must be cloak and dagger........ >> >>What do you all think? >> >>Regards >> >>Christopher > > >ElTurco is known as a *patchwork clone* at least by WB people. >BTW it also uses the plain Crafty book implementation... > >The author first used mainly TSCP code, after some complaints >and recognizing the code as *crappy* by himself(!) he just replaced >it by Faile code... > >*quote from WB forum:* >'I have removed the TSCP code from my engine and replaced it with code from >Faile (which, I checked, is MIT licensed so I can use the code). >I have released a new version with no TSCP code'. > >I know of no serious tester, who uses it in tournaments. > >BTW have you ever looked at the *Hall of shame* at the TSCP site? >http://home.comcast.net/~tckerrigan/ > >Guenther Hello Guenther, That explains alot, thank you. I have looked at the Hall of Shame before, but this one is not listed. And....you are right, I have not seen it in tournaments before unless you count the one given above. It is good to know that others are watching. There seem to be patterns developing. Regards Christopher
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