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Subject: Re: A report from the low end of the rating scale

Author: Andreas Stabel

Date: 07:58:23 06/08/99

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On June 08, 1999 at 10:17:59, Heiko Mikala wrote:

>Hi Andreas!
>
>On June 08, 1999 at 09:30:11, Andreas Stabel wrote:
>
>>   If there are somebody else who have experienced similar setbacks I hope
>>this report can show that you are not alone.
>
>Andreas, you are definitely not alone! I stopped playing against my own chess
>program (at least stopped hoping to win) many years ago, it's too frustrating...
>
>But, hey, the first times your program wins against you should be wonderful
>moments for you, no? It shows that your program is getting better!
>
>At this point, maybe you should think about making your engine
>Winboard-compatible, so that you can let it play automatically against other
>engines, or, even better (as you already have an FICS-account), get a computer
>account on FICS and let it play there. Try to find some good human opponents,
>it's absolutely fascinating what good human players can do to your program ;-)
>
>If you're ready, feel free to match your engine against mine, which is playing
>using the handle "HMChess" on FICS. I'm looking forward to it :)
>
>
>Greetings,
>
>Heiko.

I would like to Heiko, but I don't have much time for these things and playing
chess myself has higher priority even though I don't do that much either.
I think also that after reading rec.games.chess and the posts here for many
years I know how much it takes to make a good chess program. I know I will
never have the time or energy to do it properly. I have made my chess program
mostly to test certain consepts and as a basis for answering questions about
chess that other programs doesn't. I am a professional computer programmer and
also like to make some programs on my spare time and chess is one of the most
challenging and well defined tasks I know of.

Regards
Andreas



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