michiguel wrote:
CPW is one of the nicest things that happened to this hobby in the last few years.
Miguel
By the way, I recently recognized Clare Fischer's music piece Gaviota. You and as well as Fischer were affiliated with the Michigan State University. Is there some relation between Clare Fischer's music, the University, and the name of your program - or is it pure coincidence?
Haha, good catch! Shall we ask TMZ to make an enquiry on Miguel's ladies?
That was a serious question, may be Gaviota is on the seal of the University or so, and both names, the music piece and the program's name were in remembrance to that. But I already learned Gaviota is from Jonathan Livingston Seagull and Gaby
michiguel wrote:
CPW is one of the nicest things that happened to this hobby in the last few years.
Miguel
By the way, I recently recognized Clare Fischer's music piece Gaviota. You and as well as Fischer were affiliated with the Michigan State University. Is there some relation between Clare Fischer's music, the University, and the name of your program - or is it pure coincidence?
Haha, good catch! Shall we ask TMZ to make an enquiry on Miguel's ladies?
That was a serious question, may be Gaviota is on the seal of the University or so, and both names, the music piece and the program's name were in remembrance to that. But I already learned Gaviota is from Jonathan Livingston Seagull and Gaby
michiguel wrote:
CPW is one of the nicest things that happened to this hobby in the last few years.
Miguel
By the way, I recently recognized Clare Fischer's music piece Gaviota. You and as well as Fischer were affiliated with the Michigan State University. Is there some relation between Clare Fischer's music, the University, and the name of your program - or is it pure coincidence?
Haha, good catch! Shall we ask TMZ to make an enquiry on Miguel's ladies?
That was a serious question, may be Gaviota is on the seal of the University or so, and both names, the music piece and the program's name were in remembrance to that. But I already learned Gaviota is from Jonathan Livingston Seagull and Gaby
Isn't there a Gaviota on the seal?
I do not see any seagulls in the MSU seal.
The seagull is the one taking the picture!!
Miguel
PS: Yes, the MSU Gaviota connection is a coincidence. Amazingly, there are seagulls in Michigan (because of the gigantic lakes nearby). Some people are surprised to know there are beaches there and in Chicago (the other side of the lake).
michiguel wrote:
CPW is one of the nicest things that happened to this hobby in the last few years.
Miguel
By the way, I recently recognized Clare Fischer's music piece Gaviota. You and as well as Fischer were affiliated with the Michigan State University. Is there some relation between Clare Fischer's music, the University, and the name of your program - or is it pure coincidence?
Haha, good catch! Shall we ask TMZ to make an enquiry on Miguel's ladies?
That was a serious question, may be Gaviota is on the seal of the University or so, and both names, the music piece and the program's name were in remembrance to that. But I already learned Gaviota is from Jonathan Livingston Seagull and Gaby
Isn't there a Gaviota on the seal?
I do not see any seagulls in the MSU seal.
The seagull is the one taking the picture!!
Miguel
PS: Yes, the MSU Gaviota connection is a coincidence. Amazingly, there are seagulls in Michigan (because of the gigantic lakes nearby). Some people are surprised to know there are beaches there and in Chicago (the other side of the lake).
This is what happened when someone tried to clone Gaviota.
JuLieN wrote:Thx for your work, Gerd, and happy birthday CPW!!!
Thank you. And also big thanks to all explicit and implicit contributors so far, fair use in mind. While a bit unorganized, pseudo scientific and chaotic, I'll hope its quite creative and entertaining, even if you are not a fusion Jazz fan like me. One further suggestion is to make CPW a repository for public domain open source snippets, which is de facto already true for some bitboard stuff with a clear 1:1 input-output relation, f.i. the now obsolete bitscan, popcount routines, etc.. For the "black art" of Evaluation and Search heuristics, there are some topics mentioned with some pseudo code. To say it with Frank Zappa, my pronunciation really sucks, and while a little bit on the tweeze side, our intentions are really good, and we'll try to do a wonderful job here in the Fatherland ...
Some were displeased why CPW makes no clear standing on Houdini origin and Robert Houdart, while being a bit harsh with Norman Schmidt or Vasik Rajlich. I was and am trying to be objective here, to quote or refer postings or other sources, and otherwise to avoid taking side in controversial issues.
I feel France (not to mention Italy, Spain, Russia ...) is a bit under representated in CPW, concerning tournaments, programmers, engines, universities related to computer chess or AI (which structure I still have not fully understand), and videos of course (there is only Jean-Luc Ponty mentioned).
Cheers,
Gerd
CPW is one of the nicest things that happened to this hobby in the last few years.
Miguel
I absolutely agree with this. It's the first place an aspiring new author should go and it's a valuable reference for any chess programmer. I use it all the time myself.
Capital punishment would be more effective as a preventive measure if it were administered prior to the crime.
michiguel wrote:
CPW is one of the nicest things that happened to this hobby in the last few years.
Miguel
By the way, I recently recognized Clare Fischer's music piece Gaviota. You and as well as Fischer were affiliated with the Michigan State University. Is there some relation between Clare Fischer's music, the University, and the name of your program - or is it pure coincidence?
Haha, good catch! Shall we ask TMZ to make an enquiry on Miguel's ladies?
That was a serious question, may be Gaviota is on the seal of the University or so, and both names, the music piece and the program's name were in remembrance to that. But I already learned Gaviota is from Jonathan Livingston Seagull and Gaby
Isn't there a Gaviota on the seal?
I do not see any seagulls in the MSU seal.
The seagull is the one taking the picture!!
Miguel
PS: Yes, the MSU Gaviota connection is a coincidence. Amazingly, there are seagulls in Michigan (because of the gigantic lakes nearby). Some people are surprised to know there are beaches there and in Chicago (the other side of the lake).
This is what happened when someone tried to clone Gaviota.
Miguel
In light of this change of attitude in Gaviota (from the serene, loving, forgiving gull to angry, bad-ass bird), I submit this new logo:
Shall we ask TMZ to make an enquiry on Miguel's ladies?
That was a serious question, may be Gaviota is on the seal of the University or so, and both names, the music piece and the program's name were in remembrance to that. But I already learned Gaviota is from Jonathan Livingston Seagull and Gaby 
