Happy Birthday

[Gerd Isenberg]

CPW is one year old. Oups, one day left...

On October 26th, 2007, Mark Lefler founded the Chess Programming Wiki. His last edit in CPW and last post in CCC is quite some months ago. Does anybody know whether Mark is hopefully doing well and only takes a break from computer chess?

As active CPW member and organizer, I like to invite you, engine authors as well as computer chess enthusiasts to become member and to contribute a little, for instance to write about your engine and yourself, and to help to improve the quality of the CPW. Actually there are 697 pages, but a lot of stubs which need more text, and about 1224 wanted pages at all. So if you have founded knowledge about Fritz, Rebel, Tiger, Rybka, Hiarcs, Sjeng, Shredder, Zappa, Junior, Fruit and all the other engines and programs, also historic chess programs, you are welcome to contribute. Same of course for further programming issues, programming languages and optimization tricks, and links to valuable posts and threads from CCC, Winboard Forum and rgcc.

You may also send me private messages here with plain text, I may publish in the Wiki.

I am also interested in your opinions and suggestions, the structure of the Wiki, the proprietary wiki-text with multimedia features, like embedded links to external videos and images. Again, the intention of the wiki is not to replace programming forums, but to keep the CPW as none commercial and free appendix and reference. Actually zipped Wiki-Text backup is about 1.9MByte and html slightly more, 2.3 MByte (both without external images).

Thanks,
Gerd

[tvrzsky]

Gerd, I would like to thank You and all other CPW contributors as well for your efforts. There is so much of interesting stuff there. Highly appreciated!
Filip

[Zach Wegner]

I didn't notice! Happy birthday CPW!!

Just for fun, here's where the idea was hatched: http://64.68.157.89/forum/viewtopic.php?t=17344

I must commend you, Gerd, for the tremendous work you have done. Far more than any other you have made CPW a great resource. I don't have so much time to contribute these days, but I still regularly use it as a resource.

Here's to another great year!

[Gerd Isenberg]

Gerd, I would like to thank You and all other CPW contributors as well for your efforts. There is so much of interesting stuff there. Highly appreciated!
Filip

Thank you Filip, for your kind words and motivation.

There is some fascination with the page- or "Tree"-structure of the Wiki, and how several issues are addressed by several parents. Despite being proprietary, I like the features of the Wiki, specially the recently added <ref>-feature and the back-links (what links here?) I used likely for leaf-pages.

Cheers,
Gerd

[Gerd Isenberg]

I didn't notice! Happy birthday CPW!!

Just for fun, here's where the idea was hatched: http://64.68.157.89/forum/viewtopic.php?t=17344

I must commend you, Gerd, for the tremendous work you have done. Far more than any other you have made CPW a great resource. I don't have so much time to contribute these days, but I still regularly use it as a resource.

Here's to another great year!

Yep!

I had disregard my chess programming a bit, but that will hopefully change soon ... as long it is fun and no work.

[abik]

Yes, happy birthday CPW and many thanks to all who made this such a great resource, in particular Gerd!

[Edsel Apostol]

Happy Birthday to CPW. Big thanks to Gerd for the biggest effort and thank you to everyone that joined.

I am inviting other people to join the wiki also and contribute their knowledge.

[Gerd Isenberg]

Thank you all. I also like to thank Pavel Koziol for his contributions on the structure of the Wiki, specially concerning the Dictionary, and together with Edmund Moshammer for writing the didactical CPW-engine, and Pradu Kannan for his excellent Pawn Advantage, Win Percentage, and ELO page, and of course the founders around Mark Lefler, Don Dailey and Zach Wegner, and all others contributed. As mentioned by Zach, the initial cause to establish the CPW was a post Sam Hamilton on publishing test results. While the latter is not completely implemented, there is still room to improve further.

I also hope my own contribution isn't interpreted as takeover of the Wiki to prevent others to contribute. That was/is definitely not my intention.

Thanks,
Gerd

[BubbaTough]

Thank you all. I also like to thank Pavel Koziol for his contributions on the structure of the Wiki, specially concerning the Dictionary, and together with Edmund Moshammer for writing the didactical CPW-engine, and Pradu Kannan for his excellent Pawn Advantage, Win Percentage, and ELO page, and of course the founders around Mark Lefler, Don Dailey and Zach Wegner, and all others contributed. As mentioned by Zach, the initial cause to establish the CPW was a post Sam Hamilton on publishing test results. While the latter is not completely implemented, there is still room to improve further.

I also hope my own contribution isn't interpreted as takeover of the Wiki to prevent others to contribute. That was/is definitely not my intention.

Thanks,
Gerd

We all love you Gerd, keep up the good work. Maybe Mark Lefler will celebrate the CPW birthday by enterring NOW in the next ACCA tournament .

-Sam

[Gerd Isenberg]

We all love you Gerd, keep up the good work. Maybe Mark Lefler will celebrate the CPW birthday by enterring NOW in the next ACCA tournament .

-Sam

Thank you Sam, I will try - less frequently. However, it would be nice to read something about your Learning Lemming someday

Cheers,
Gerd