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Subject: Here's the program you're looking for!

Author: Graham Laight

Date: 07:23:30 10/06/05

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http://javascript.internet.com/games/javascript-chess-with-cpu-oppo.html

This is my personal favourite chess program.

-g

On October 05, 2005 at 16:31:12, Fernando Villegas wrote:

>Hi all:
>Looking at the posts here, today and other days, I suddenly realized that there
>is not anymore the kind of posts you still could find in older days, here or in
>paper magazines, the kind of articles or posts saying something like "program X
>stinks".
>In short, It looks like there are not bad or even mediocre programs available,
>As a friend of mine say of automotive industry: "in these days every car is a
>good car... car manufacture is an already dominated technology".
>In older times you did find bad cars. Cars that went stray the first week after
>purchasing them. Cars with all kind of weird sounds of loose parts. Engines that
>overheated or overeated gass. Etc.
>Same with chess engines?
>Exception made of definitively lousy engines produced for going in a Cd with 123
>other programs for kids, can you say any of the engines that we know from
>commercial or amateurs programers could be qualifuid as "bad"?
>Is it, already, a dominatede technique?
>Are overthere so well know general heuristic that, provided you work accurately,
>you cannot but produce a "strong program"?
>Questions...
>Fernando



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