Re: [pbmserv] how about this for a crazy idea for gamerz.net

[John Williams <williams@tni.com>]

Actually the history is even older than that.

Way way back before the server was rewritten in C++, someone had an
experimental version of the server on their own system where they had
actually implemented ifmoves.  I forget who it was back then, but I played
a game of lasca on his server, and the ifmoves really worked.  Quite
impressive it was too.  You could specify a whole tree of ifmoves with
different responses to different moves, etc.

~ John Williams (sharkey)


On Mon, 8 Sep 2008, Eric wrote:

> --- On Mon, 9/8/08, Stig Hemmer <stig@pvv.ntnu.no> wrote:
> > It would be nice if Richard or somebody else in the know
> > will tell the
> > insider view of this story.
>
> Quick summary from an insider. I came up with the idea, inspired by
> sequences in Go which were pretty predictable. I might have even come
> up with the Ifmove name.
>
> The main reason it went was the same as usual. I think no one
> programmed it. I think up ideas and spew them forth, but I have no
> programming skill. Someone's got to plug it in.
>
> A side reason it, and other things, didn't get done is because
> sometimes there's too much discussion. It's good to talk things
> through and work out how an idea works, but too many thoughts and
> ideas lead to conflicts and complications. Conflicts and complications
> discourage the few programmers we have, I think.
>
> So if Doug wants to hop on this and program, maybe Richard still has
> the help file and what was done before. If not, I think he's smart
> enough to come up with something and implement it.
>
> Eric
> swift