Matthew Montchalin wrote on Fri, Jul 22, 2005 06:30 PM UTC:
Say, will an Ultima version of Chess V ever be made available on CDROM?
Instead of constantly modifying Chess V as time goes on, various versions
could (and therefore should) be fixed in time and space, so a
'performance' or 'competence' rating could be assigned to each
version, and people would have some kind of an idea how well they (or
their programs) are performing against it. The 'I-depth' variable is
interesting, but there are other ways of defining a program's playing
strength than by defining how many plies deep the search should go.
Anyway, there is nothing more miserable than having to plod through 'C'
source code; it's totally inscrutable. (At least well-commented
assembly
language makes sense.) It would make a great sparring partner for those
of
us who can finally be convinced there's a reason to buy a reasonably
modern Intel machine to run it on.