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Guenther
Posts: 4607 Joined: Wed Oct 01, 2008 6:33 am
Location: Regensburg, Germany
Full name: Guenther Simon
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by Guenther » Sat Oct 28, 2017 11:50 am
*strongly influenced by the '10 years after' post in the programming section*
Today it is exactly four years after the last entry in Leos 'Engine news'.
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28/10/2013:
Updated: K2 v0.35 (WB, also sources.)
Updated: Crafty v23.7 (also X64 & sources!)
The first entry AFAIK was in March 2002!
This means he ran that valuable service for 11 1/2 years!
RIP Leo.
https://rwbc-chess.de
trollwatch:
Talkchess nowadays is a joke - it is full of trolls/idiots/people stuck in the pleistocene > 80% of the posts fall into this category...
Adam Hair
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Location: Fuquay-Varina, North Carolina
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by Adam Hair » Sat Oct 28, 2017 8:38 pm
WBEC and RWBC were very helpful to me when I first became interested in computer chess.
jmartus
Posts: 256 Joined: Sun May 16, 2010 2:50 am
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by jmartus » Sun Oct 29, 2017 4:59 pm
Yeah its sad that he passed away his site is what introduced me to computer chess learned so much from his site.
Norm Pollock
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Location: Long Island, NY, USA
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by Norm Pollock » Mon Oct 30, 2017 5:46 pm
jmartus wrote: Yeah its sad that he passed away his site is what introduced me to computer chess learned so much from his site.
Same here. Particularly his tournaments. IIRC, they were 4 round-robin, with about 18 participants in each level. Engines who did well moved up in level. Organized like soccer leagues. He also insisted on pondering which is rare today. Engines provided their own opening books, and those that did not have one, were given one created by Leo.