Author: Uri Blass
Date: 12:47:59 08/18/00
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On August 18, 2000 at 15:06:46, Stefano Gemma wrote: >On August 18, 2000 at 12:55:06, Uri Blass wrote: > >>On August 18, 2000 at 06:00:47, Stefano Gemma wrote: >> >>>I've seen some thread, in WinBoard forum, talking about some clone of chess >[...] >>>code (or algorithm) from various author, making that way some "Frankenstein >>>program". >>I think that the words (or algorithm) do not belong here because I assume that >>you do not call people who read about the alpha beta in books and use it in >>their program as people who do frankenstein programs. > >I have talk about "frankenstein" just to give an idea about a program written >taking not just code, but even ideas, suggestions and so on from various >sources. I consider any information as a piece of the programming "DNA". There's >nothing bad about Frankenstein programs, because they are the result of an hard >work of research. The same is for clone programs, when the programmer examines >the code to make it better. > >Ciao!!! I think that by your definition you will find no program that is build from scratch. TSCP is not build from scratch by your definition because Tom read books about computer chess before writing his program and used ideas that he read in books. I do not know about programmers who do not use the alpha beta or try to build chess program without reading about computer chess before or avoid using the alpha beta because they read about it and want to be original. Uri
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