Author: Pablo Ignacio Restrepo
Date: 23:08:37 05/28/05
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Hello Thomas. This is great. To have an ideal in the life. Best regards, Pablo n May 28, 2005 at 20:25:09, Thomas Mayer wrote: >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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