Lyudmil T.?

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zullil
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Lyudmil T.?

Post by zullil »

Pablo's return after a long hiatus from posting made me wonder about Lyudmil Tsvetkov, with whom I had many interesting exchanges. Was he banned for life? :wink: I hope he is well.
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Re: Lyudmil T.?

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I was also thinking about Lyudmil, because Dadi Jonsson posted a position from one of his correspondence games in the Rybka Testposition forum It is a classic example of a pawn phalanx, in my humble opinion anyway, Lyudmil would have appreciated the game and the fact that Stockfish is of course totally unable to solve it without the necessary knowledge would have lead him to another unending stream of programming requests. Maybe I will post a little bit about what I think Stockfish would need to know later on FishCooking. But it is not easy for me to code, Tord would do it in under twenty minutes in the most economic and mathematically elegant way to do it I'm sure of that :) It would take me 2½ years I think to have something that actually works...
Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first
place. Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you
are, by definition, not smart enough to debug it.
-- Brian W. Kernighan