Author: Frederic Louguet
Date: 00:04:34 10/12/99
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>Apparently Frederic was very upset and said he has bugs in Chess Wizard. To he >decided to withdraw the second day. > >This information brought by the operator of Tiger, but I assume Frederic reads >CCC and will bring soon complete information about this. I admit that I wasn't >in Clichy myself and I might have misunderstood the situation. > >So the second day, every program that was scheduled to play against Wizard >simply got 1 point without playing... > > > Christophe That is correct. It was awful. Very nasty bugs, lack of time to properly test the program... Playing horrible moves in endings with minor pieces, and other things as well. I decided to withdraw because I knew it was not playing as it is supposed to (and as it did in the past), and I could not support to see it destroyed game after game. It is a good lesson. Never play in a tournament when you are not fully prepared. Another reason is that Chess Wizard is now too complex and hard to change. Sooo... it is dead. As of now, I will start again from scratch (well, almost). New program, new name, new ideas. It will take time, but now I am quite remotivated. Congratulations to Capture and Chess Tiger for this title. AnMon was not far behind also, and there is now quite a lot of excellent french chess programs. I hope to be able to allocate enough ressources to create a new, very competitive program next year. We'll see...
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