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Subject: On the Voyager Issue, briefly -- to Bob Hyatt

Author: Djordje Vidanovic

Date: 05:18:01 02/17/99


Bob,

I read your report carefully. The story is over for me.  I know where I am now,
and what I have been doing.  About my doubts -- yes, I did have them but there
was that different style of play, my good faith and a rationally based
conviction that the author is a brillant person.  For all I know the author IS a
brilliant person.  However, I have enough evidence now to form my opinion about
those early versions of Voyager -- R=3, some eval changes (e. g. bishops getting
more bonus vs. knights than you assigned), plus some other Voyager specific
changes which I will not mention now as the author is still, I think, working on
the program (hopefully making a wholly new product).  Bob, thanks for doing what
I thought you should surely do -- presenting evidence.  From now on, the version
playing on ICC (a terrific blitz player otherwise) will be labelled as Voyager,
by Robert Hyatt, modified by G. Mueller.  I do intend to run it more when I have
time, as I truly believe it to be one of the best blitzers on the Net.

There are some other points that I have raised in the discussions with Dan Homan
and Jeremiah Pennery that I think are worth further elucidation. Perhaps later
at some point.

Regards,
Djordje



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