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Subject: Re: Eureka! Voila! Ooh La La! (Thanks Uri!)

Author: Roger Brown

Date: 03:39:14 12/04/05

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>If writing/creating a top engine was so simple the answer would have been
>discovered long long ago.





Hello Ross,

You are really crashing my hopes to the ground.  Give up my flegdling C studies
then?

:-)

Why intrude on my fantasy with hard facts?



>Currently there are several hundred (known)
>programmers that have published engines. Very few produce something that plays
>above 2500. Its not a trivial task.
>
>And for anyone who hasn't attempted it yet, the chance of thinking of some new
>approach that hasn't been 'thunk' of before is highly remote.



I must admit that writing one with my wife's name as a good luck charm may be a
novel and useful approach.  How do you handle the copyright and royalty income
isssues?  Fifty-fifty?

Wink, wink.

:-)

Later.



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