Author: leonid
Date: 15:33:39 12/03/99
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On December 03, 1999 at 17:54:38, blass uri wrote: >On December 03, 1999 at 07:14:21, leonid wrote: > >>Hello! >> >>I have seen here few names that sound to me like Russian. Wanted to ask them >>about the situation of chess programming in the ex Soviet Union but prefered to >>be careful. Human reaction is unpredictable. If you know something about this >>matter, please explain. >> >>I left Soviet Union and went into "volontary exile" exactly 20 years ago. Never >>came back. When I was there, beside playing occasionally in the park, I never >>was in chess competitions or programming. Remember only some sporadic news >>describing the progress in writing the chess game by Botvinic's team. Game was >>never done. At that time Russians were good in playing the chess game but >>probably never in programming. Reason - price of PC was beyond the reach of >>simple man and computer was not existant in the shops. How situation is now? Do >>we have some prominent chess programming going in the Easten Europe? >> >>If you happened to be from India or Israel (where we have now very strong >>software development), please explain about those countries as well. >> >>Thanks! >>Leonid. > >I am from Israel and Amir Ban(the programmer of Junior) is also from Israel. > >I am not a good programmer(I did not write programs of more than some hundreds >lines and I know nothing about assembler) and my talent is for mathematics. > >I believe that I have a lot of good ideas that chess programmers do not use but >it is not easy to explain them to the computer. > >I started to try to write my chess computer program in C. >Uri If you will be interested to chat about your ideas (my represent no secret) you can write me. It is possible that it could be mutually advantagious. I wrote my whole program from my head. Exception are some small ideas that I found already by speaking to the people on the Net. I am not a programmer but amateur. Don't even mention that you are weak programmer. You never did your program, so you don't know how strong your game can be. The biggest obstacle in our life it is not that much that we can't do something, but that we are so afraid to fail that we drop everything from the start. Never mind if you will start with weak program, you will improve it gradually. But is the chess programming, in general, widespread in Israel? I imagine thatt popularity of chess game between the Russians can be natural impulse for this kind of programming. Privet s Kanadi! Lenia.
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