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Subject: Re: Programmer's posts

Author: Madhavan

Date: 20:45:41 06/15/05

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On June 15, 2005 at 11:48:03, Dann Corbit wrote:

>On June 14, 2005 at 08:41:28, Madhavan wrote:
>
>>these authors post are worth the read
>>
>>Johan De Koning
>>Fabien Letouzy
>>Bruce Moreland
>>Robert Hyatt
>>
>>
>>we have excellent posters here,I like the above
>>
>>so who do you like?
>
>I read all of them.  Every chess author can teach me something I don't know.
>
>Amir Ban used to post here (not so much anymore).  He was very insightful.
>
>Christophe Theron posted here frequently, until he got distracted by a beautiful
>woman and started putting more energy into family than computer chess.  CAN YOU
>IMAGINE?

:)

>You did not mention Ed Schroder.  What an oversight.  He is the most helpful
>next to Robert and Bruce.  He also posts here less than before.

I was talking about kind of posts IE with meaningful humor and other stuffs etc
I dont find a single Ed's post having a humor etc
if you were talking about programming,I'd includ Ed anyway.

>SMK has made some posts here, but not a great deal.  Obviously, if he talks, we
>should listen.

yes.mostly about UCI.

>Vincent has some very good ideas.  He sees things in a very polar way (it is
>either great or crap -- he even pans his own excellent program when it makes
>some small error).  Vincent is very willing to share his ideas.  I read all of
>his posts except when he is locking horns with Dr. Hyatt.

:)

>Amateur programmers with simple engines sometimes have very insightful posts and
>novel ideas.  Uri Blass has some ideas that are rather unique.  Omid has some
>very interesting ideas.  Daniel Shawul is another who is very interesting to me.

Uri is very logical,most of his post shows logics.

>Some others that used to post here but not as much lately:
>De Konig (of Chessmaster fame)
>SmarThink's author (shame on me, I can't remember his name -- likes Botvinnik's
>ideas a lot)

Sergei Markoff :)

>Peter McKenzie (Warp/Lambchop)
>Bas Hamstra (Best looking code of all time, I mean: REALLY BEAUTIFUL!)

how does his code look?

>Lots of others, of course.



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