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Subject: Re: J. van den Herik on the secrets of Fruit's success in Reykjavik

Author: Dann Corbit

Date: 15:02:43 01/19/06

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On January 19, 2006 at 16:58:10, Albert Silver wrote:

>On January 19, 2006 at 16:21:40, Peter Berger wrote:
>
>>"For Fabian Letouzey, it must have been a remarkable tournament. He might have
>>hoped to play the role Anthony Cozzie now took, since he had assembled a very
>>good chess-playing program that was composed from open-source software. Letouzey
>>studied all the computer-chess techniques, dug up code on the Internet, and used
>>his talents to integrate these pieces into an efficient program. After he had
>>tested it against many ( not to say all) availlable software programs, Letouzey
>>came to Reykjavik with high expectations."
>>
>>van den Herik, J. (2006). Revolution. ICGA Journal, Vol. 28, No. 3, p. 130
>
>Weird. It makes it sound as if Fabien just cleverly took pieces of code here and
>there from others and put them together to make Fruit.

He is clearly totally in the dark regarding fruit.
The funny thing is he tries to make authoratative sounding statements.
For those that know, they are positively commical things to say.



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