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Subject: Re: CTAL in new incarnation?

Author: Michael Yee

Date: 10:34:23 12/03/05

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On December 03, 2005 at 10:02:53, Thorsten Czub wrote:

>On December 03, 2005 at 09:55:51, Michael Yee wrote:
>
>>Are you saying that you have rights to the source code?
>
>
>no i am not having the rights to the code.
>
>
>> Specifically, would you
>>have the right to donate the code to a new open source project?
>
>no.
>
>>I'm guessing that there are people/programmers who would be interested in
>>learning about and contributing to an alternative approach.
>>
>>Michael
>
>
>yes.
>but don't hope too much. the code is very complicate. i doubt that you can do
>much with it if you want to learn or continue to it.
>
>now it is 2005. the project was stopped 1999.
>
>thats 6 years.
>
>the whole search of CSTAL would need a complete UPDATE.
>
>much has happened over the years. e.g. when CSTal was on the market, nalimov was
>not compressed !
>
>There was an rewrite of the engine, but it was never finished.


Okay, I think I misunderstood. I thought you were interested in people extending
the actual original source code. But it seems you're talking more about the
ideas. By the way, have the non-standard ideas/algorithms of CSTAL been openly
discussed anywhere?

Michael



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