janeric@regler.UUCP (Janeric Larsson) (06/10/85)
Now the "net.chess" newsgroup is transferred to Europe. This means that there probably is no great need for a computer chess mailing list. A few people seemed to be interested in computer chess, so why don't we start writing. All You out there doing something, write and tell. As we haven't done anything since our last posting here it comes again... We are two enthusiastic chess programmers from Lund, Sweden. Since 1978 we have been writing chess programs, and our present program "Chestnut", now two years old, is written in Pascal and runs on a VAX 11/780, at a rating of about 1600 - 1800. Our main interest is fancy evaluation functions, but our current project is to convert the program to C and increase the speed with a factor of 10 (we hope). If we succeed in doing this, we will have quite a strong program. (A rating over 2000? Who knows?) Anyone interested in computer chess? Drop us a letter! Jan Eric Larsson Hakan Fransson AI Researcher Senior Software Engineer Lund Institute of Technology Systems Design International Lund, Sweden Malmoe, Sweden Path: !seismo!mcvax!enea!alibaba!regler!janeric