Author: Thomas Mayer
Date: 17:25:09 05/28/05
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Hi Alexander, On May 28, 2005 at 14:46:05, Alexander chessplayer wrote: > Can anybody list ALL purposes why people steel create more and more chess > engines? I think it differs from author to author. For me the key-experience was to see an Mephisto I in action beating my cousin. (I was 9 or 10 there) Since then the dream has started to built something similar or maybe even better. So I did start 1985 or 1986 with my own engine. Well, in the age of 14/15 one change interests quite often so the engine sleeped again for long. Around 1992 I started again and published it in the Fido-Net and had some nice contacts. But I got busy with other things again, and a rewrite around 1995 did simply fail. Well, in late 2000 I got interested again and this time it was called Quark and my interest in it did never again fully die. You know, it happens quite often that I take a bath, a shower, watch tv, discuss with others and get an idea about my chess program to try something. E.g. I think I have written now the 6th or 7th move generator for it and it always gets faster. That's interesting to me - every time when you think you can't get it better you still can. And I have still so many ideas left which I may try or may not try. After all it's simply a hobby and not so easy to describe why you do it. It's a challange, maybe a challange against oneself. Can I do this, how far can I get etc. And: I believe I would have stopped with Quark for sure after a year or so, but all the contacts I got in the meanwhile keep me working on it. It's the best motivation. Special thanks here especially to Leo Dijksman and Wolfgang Draeger, my two beta-testers since the beginning. And also to Nolan Denson who tests also for me since some month. And not to forget all collegues I met in several computer chess tournaments. And last but not least everybody in the different chess forums. That's my motivation. Greets, Thomas
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