Author: Steve Coladonato
Date: 09:59:27 12/12/05
When I first joined this forum Dr. Hyatt (Crafty), Stefan Meyer-Kahlen (Shredder), Frans Morsch (Fritz) and a few others were the programmers of merit in Computer Chess programming. Stefan seemed to be doing something different than the others with his program and whatever it was it turned out to be a very strong engine. The WCCC was active and was something I looked forward to. But then Stefan went commercial and a lot of the others. There were fewer and fewer amateur programs out there. Since that time, it seems that hardware advances made the engines stronger and not necessarily the underlying code. Nothing "new" was happening. Then Steven Edwards started work on a Lisp based engine. I considered that a departure from the traditional methods of engine development but haven't heard anything about it recently (but then again I haven't visited the site as much as I used to). I was hoping there would be more interest in the Linux environment for commercial progams (namely Chess Assistant) but that hasn't materialized either. All I see now are individual tournaments running engines against engines but nothing on code/algorithm development. It's just an observation. I'd like to see more of the WCCC and code development and less of engine tweaking and meaningless engine vs. engine tournaments. Steve
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