Author: Frank Quisinsky
Date: 05:06:23 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... I replay many games from Chess Wizard. Djordje writing last year over the famus result from Chess Wizard. I replay the games and I think that Wizard is one of the best programs in the world. I hope people can later play with your program. Good luck ! Kind regards Frank
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