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Subject: Re: PARADISE 2

Author: James Long

Date: 12:44:43 07/04/98

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On July 04, 1998 at 12:21:12, Steven J. Edwards wrote:

>On July 04, 1998 at 04:59:58, Trefor Deane wrote:
>
>>                             Paradise 2
>>
>>             PAttern Recognition Applied to DIrecting SEarch
>>
>>Does anyone know what happened to the development of this program?
>>Did it ever succeed commercially, prehaps under another name, or was it's chess
>>engine used in other programs.
>>I know that this was a very seletive knowledge based program that did seem to
>>offer great potential.
>
>I had an e-mail conversation with the program's author (Wilkins) abvout a year
>or so ago.  I don't believe there had been any further development since the
>early 1980s.
>
>If you are interested in pursuing a Lisp based chess program project, a free
>Chess In Lisp toolkit is available from the chess.onenet.net ftp site.  The file
>name is "CILv00.tar.gz" (or something like that) in the directory
>pub/chess/uploads/projects (or something like that).  The toolkit is written
>entirely in Common Lisp and its use can save a lot of time as it has a full
>bitboard style move generator along with the execute/retract routines.
>
>-- Steven (sje@mv.mv.com)

Steven,

Don't you have a program of your own?  Maybe I'm mistaken,
but I think I read that you did.  If so, does it ever play
on any of the servers?  Is it publicly available?

---
James
http://home.fda.net/~wzrdking




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