Author: Gian-Carlo Pascutto
Date: 11:15:57 04/20/02
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On April 20, 2002 at 14:05:28, Uri Blass wrote: >Bionic? >I am surprised to hear that name > >I remember that Bionic is a crafty clone. Yes, but it wasn't a straight Crafty clone, i.e. they tried to improve several things about it, mainly in the evaluation. The discussion back then revolved around the fact that Bionic was playing in a tournament on dual hardware, without Roberts permission, and that the source code was not available, which was a violation of the license. (They never hid the fact that their program was a Crafty clone) It's always been unclear how much of the code was Crafty and whether or not they just fiddled with some weights and gave the program a new name and that kind of things. Anyway, Hans described some of the changes he made to me, including something related to routing knights. After hearing it I got convinced they did not just change some weights and they weren't the frauds they were made out to be. The idea was completely original, very good and not too hard to implement and get working. -- GCP
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