Author: Tord Romstad
Date: 14:47:10 08/24/05
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On August 24, 2005 at 16:55:04, Rolf Tueschen wrote: >I dont know why you become so aggressive. Hi Rolf, I didn't mean to come across as aggressive, and apologise if I did. >I saw a photograph from you in Mainz and I thought, why the guy is always >so aggressive towards me since 1997, he looks so peaceful. I like to think that I actually am rather peaceful, but I'll leave the judgment to others. >Something is wrong here. 14 certainly wasn't meaningful, it >was thought to be just a high number. My point is that it isn't a high number at all. Pick any chess program you want, and it will contain much more than 14 well known techniques which have been used in chess programs for a decade or more. By your definition, basically everything except Symbolic would be labeled a clone. Chess programming has come quite far, and improving substantially on the published algorithms isn't easy. To some extent, chess programming is still a matter of finding new and clever ideas, but mostly it is a matter of implementing and combining the known techniques in an elegant, efficient and bug-free way. This is much more difficult than it sounds. >But ok, you answered at least. - Now my question: what afterall did you >invent yourself in computerchess programming? I was a chess player in my youth, but I always found chess playing to be a very taxing endeavor. It just required too much concrete, deep, exact calculations for my taste. I eventually decided that it was exactly the kind of task that was better suited for machines than for humans, and started writing a program. >And second question: why - after all these copies - is your program not among >the winning ones at tournaments? This is a somewhat strange question. If you are talking about informal engine vs engine tournaments run by users, my program has of course won a lot of them. If you are talking about OTB tournaments, I have only participated in one, and I don't think I can count 0 wins in 1 tournament as a big failure. I guess what you really meant to ask was why my program is not among the strongest. There are countless reasons for this; the two most important are lack of programming skills and lack of ambition. >Please answer without the usual hatred please. I've tried, I hope you are not too disappointed. Tord
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