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Subject: Re: simple solution to programming

Author: Pete Galati

Date: 11:10:12 06/22/99

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On June 22, 1999 at 13:54:19, Robert Hyatt wrote:

>On June 22, 1999 at 11:47:16, Pete Galati wrote:
>
>>On June 22, 1999 at 11:15:24, Robert Hyatt wrote:
>>
>>>On June 22, 1999 at 10:43:53, Pete Galati wrote:
>>>
>>>>On June 22, 1999 at 01:16:28, James Swafford wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>On June 21, 1999 at 20:40:05, walter irvin wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> my program is not ready yet in the one game it drew the mach iv it was winning
>>>>>>but the search produced move that allowed counter play.i have to fix that
>>>>>>problem to me thats unexceptable play .
>>>>>>  the reason its not an easy problem to fix is the search is totally different
>>>>>>than conventional chess program .its based on pattern rec .i only know it would
>>>>>>never play that type move again . but need further testing .
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>Now I'm intrigued.  Pattern recognition?  In such a short period
>>>>>of time??  With results like that???
>>>>>
>>>>>:-)
>>>>
>>>>I'm skeptical. But he's welcome to prove me wrong.
>>>>
>>>>Pete
>>>
>>>I've been falling all over myself this morning... Can't seem to walk because
>>>"something" keeps "pulling my leg"...
>>>
>>>:)
>>
>>Yeah, I didn't figure you had missed the mark so bad with Crafty, too bad you're
>>going to have to start all over again! Amazing. You might want to hang on to
>>your code for a while anyhow.
>>
>>Pete
>
>
>This happens about once every 1-2 years...  IE about 2 years ago on r.g.c.c
>we had a 'new program' announced that was playing good chess.  Many of us
>asked for games.  "nada".  We kept insisting... Finally two games were posted.
>Both matched _exactly_ the moves played by the current version of Crafty.  No
>more was heard from this 'breakthrough'...
>
>:)

I gotta admit Bob, he makes up excuses better than I do, so he's got that going
for him.

Pete



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