Author: Tord Romstad
Date: 03:26:46 06/28/05
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On June 28, 2005 at 02:04:27, Reinhard Scharnagl wrote: >I am sorry about the fact, that Smirf's growing abilities are tested nearly by >nobody. Some feed back could be very helpful. Hi Reinhard, Yes, I know the problem. Like you, I happen to like chess variants, and I have written two chess variant programs (for FRC and hexagonal chess). My experience is the same as yours: Almost nobody are interested in chess variants. My FRC engine has been available to the public for about one year, and so far only one (!) user have been provided me with feedback. In contrast, the equivalent non-FRC engine is extremely popular, and I still occasionally receive games and comments from users, despite not having released a new version since last summer. The situation for the hexagonal chess program is slightly better, but not much. It was released a few months ago, and only a handful of users have contacted me. The sad truth is that the vast majority of users don't care about anything else than normal chess. I think the easiest way for you to get lots of feedback would be to release a special version of your program without any chess variant support, but with support for the UCI or xboard protocol. I am sure a lot of people would be very interested. Tord
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