Author: Thorsten Czub
Date: 02:55:22 05/22/05
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On May 21, 2005 at 20:44:57, Fernando Villegas wrote: >I have been revisiting old "Complete Chess System" into which you played a part, >as you later did with CSTAL. CCC, running in my Athlon, so in a lot faster >machine than the 386 or 486 machines for which or in which time CCC was designed >gave me a nice impression. I used a DC version I got in London, a couple of >years ago, at a very low price. As it is made, in XP cannot run with expanded >memory, so it has no capability for hash tables. Nevertheless, in current >computers CCC seemed to me not too far in strenght to CSTAL. I saw in it lot of >the same features in terms of kind of moves chosen, etc. >Your impression? >What you can tell us about this old program? >fernando of course CCC tried to have many nice features. when i remeber it right, it had e.g. database functions including position search in the database when chessbase still was only capable to search for LINES. also it came with many games in the databases, for a 10th of the price of chessbase programs. the chess program had a ineffcetive search (on the OLD machines it sometimes gave away a piece for almost nothing) and the evaluation function was rusty. we all changed this with CSTal DOS 1. it took arround 4 years or more. of course the programs have similar kind of kernel concerning the chess thing. chris only edited the old sources. but what made CSTal stronger was exactly this 4 years of work. CCC would IMO never had done that good. of course "it has something". all whittington programs "had something" deep burried into the trashy GUI and the buggy program, there was something. like an old car you first have to repair and wash and clean from rust until it is an oldtimer. CSTal FINISHED this. IMO the step from CCC to CST (which we first wanted to call CCC II TAL) was a big step. with CST3 it was planned to do a complete rewrite of the old program from the scratch. but chris sold business.
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