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Subject: Re: What happened to Zappa?

Author: Michael Yee

Date: 07:46:57 12/17/05

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On December 17, 2005 at 10:41:31, Marek Soszynski wrote:

>I quote...
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>-
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>By A. Cozzie
>Date 2005-09-15 23:33
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>So after some negotiation Vincent and I have reached an impasse on the contract.
> I simply don't feel its in my best interests to sign the contract he has in
>mind.  I see no reason to mention details of our disagreement, but the reality
>is: a commercial version of Zappa is extremely unlikely at this point.
>
>Zappa 2.0 will be a private engine, as I simply do not have the time to deal
>with the computer chess community considering my workload as a student.  However
>Zappa will play in Paderborn and at the WCCC in Italy - and on some hardware
>that might surprise you ;-)
>
>From now on any email that contains the word 'zappa' will be deleted by my spam
>filter, so if you have something to say please say it here.
>
>anthony


There's also this message:

[http://www.talkchess.com/forums/1/message.html?469403]

Posted by Zappa (Profile) on December 12, 2005 at 13:54:11:

In Reply to: To all :Don't you think that Zappa is ignored? posted by Joy on
December 12, 2005 at 13:19:25:

On December 12, 2005 at 13:19:25, Joy wrote:

>For a while,everybody was talking about Fruit,which is understandable.It is a
>great engine..No doubt about that...But after Rybka arrival we can see that all
>the posts are talking about the great two amatures...Rybka and Fruit..What about
>the World Champion? Don't you think that it deserves to be mentioned more?
>Don't you think that Zappa and Mr.Cozzie deserves more attention? Zappa is also
>an amature.
>2 well known tournaments in row and defeating Fruit twice in those tournaments
>(not to mention others) is not nothing to talk about.
>With all my respect to all members
>Dr.Joy Tomeh

Don't worry, they'll be talking about it a lot in about a week, after I verify
some things . . .

anthony





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