Author: Tom Kerrigan
Date: 20:40:34 07/20/00
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On July 20, 2000 at 20:57:04, Dann Corbit wrote: >On July 20, 2000 at 20:42:21, Tom Kerrigan wrote: >[snip] >>Two points on this: >>1) Was Bob the only person responsible for CB? I thought he had partners. Who >>knows how much he really contributed to its strength. Lang, Morsch, etc. were on >>their own. >>2) CB ran on a Cray. If I'm not mistaken, "Blitz" was not extremely impressive. >>If CB's competition was also running on Crays, who knows how it would have done. > >It won the world championship. If someone else had written a better program and >ran it on a cray, then you could argue that point. They could also have >invented Hsu's chip or we may as well teleport Deep Junior and its lovely 8-way >box back in time to play against "The Turk" as long as we're inventing things >that never happened. > >>>2) Writing Crafty. Crafty isn't the world champion, but who cares, it's >>>obviously a high-end program and it's open source! It's been downloaded by a >>>zillion people who either want to play against it or learn from the source, and >>>thousands of people have played against it on the Internet and are playing >>>against it right now. >> >>Making your program open source is not a way to be a "great programmer." It >>takes exactly zero effort to make a program open source. > >It takes a lot of effort to make your program open source. I'll bet Bob has >spent approximately one third Tom K. lifetime just answering crafty questions. TSCP is also open source and it took zero effort from me. I guess Bob should take some lessons from me. Hey, seeing as TSCP is open source, I guess I must be one of the top 5 chess programmers too. -Tom
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