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Subject: Re: To Reinhard Scharnagl

Author: gerold daniels

Date: 05:33:02 08/04/05

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On August 04, 2005 at 01:42:30, Juan Pablo Naar C. wrote:

>On August 04, 2005 at 00:50:02, Reinhard Scharnagl wrote:
>
>>Hi Juan Pablo,
>>
>>> Reinhard, can you implement this variant to your protocol? I find it very
>>> interesting and this could help improve any engine's positional understanding.
>>
>>I do not intend to change Smirf's lay out as a FullChess application, which is
>>meaning to include variants compatibly including traditional chess.
>>
>>But I am working on the idea to enable insertions of blocking squares, that way
>>giving a chance to reduce the size of the playable zone into different shapes.
>>
>>But actually the acceptance of the SMIRF idea is very low. A lot of people
>>simultaneously are demanding Smirf to be freeware and try to characterize my
>>ideas to be a sort of nonsense. That is not very motivating.
>>
>>Reinhard.
>
>Hi Reinhard,
>
>When will you finish your idea? I'm impatient to play my variant on SMIRF. Also,
>when you sell SMIRF, i'll instantly buy it, I want to play my variaton :-)
>
>And I accept your idea of SMIRF being commercial, I would do that too, working
>on chess variants algorithms and making them work is not an easy task and is
>time consuming, don't let the other persons intimidate you, continue on your
>great and unique project!
>
>Best Regards,
>
>Juan Pablo Naar

I agree with your statement.

Gerold.



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