Author: Gian-Carlo Pascutto
Date: 16:33:42 12/10/01
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On December 10, 2001 at 19:15:49, Carmelo Calzerano wrote: >"Crafty offers everyone a very clean starting point... The search and >quiescence code is reasonably straightforward, as is the evaluation >code. If you are interested in trying a new search extension, you can >be testing tomorrow, rather than next year..." [...] >Commercial chess programs code has to be understood only by the programmer >himself, which (apart from being the author) is usually far more skilled >in chess programming than people toying around with Crafty sources... It is my experience that when one wants to actually make a substantial change to Crafty (i.e. something more than changing some parameter here and there), you will find that it is not as clean as you might expect it to be. Many parts require a working knowledge of bitboards, lots have hidden interdependencies, sometimes the comments in the code are just plain outdated, etc... Doing something _useful_ in Crafty requires extensive programming skills. Ever wondered why there are so few outside contributions in the Changelog? -- GCP
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