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Subject: Re: French Computer Chess Championship results

Author: Christophe Theron

Date: 01:26:14 10/12/99

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On October 12, 1999 at 03:04:34, Frederic Louguet wrote:

>>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...


In 1997, I realized I could not make any progress with my 16 bits version. It
was also hard to maintain for a number of reasons.

So I rewrote everything, and here I am with Tiger 11 and 12.

No doubt you'll come back with a monster.

The later the better! :)



    Christophe



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