Author: Dann Corbit
Date: 17:32:52 09/06/02
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On September 06, 2002 at 20:14:57, Dave Gomboc wrote: >On September 06, 2002 at 19:50:17, Dann Corbit wrote: > >>On September 06, 2002 at 19:30:51, Tony Werten wrote: >>>On September 06, 2002 at 18:48:40, Dann Corbit wrote: >>[snip] >>>>Which reminds me -- I wonder what has become of Dark Thought. I wonder if >>>>people are still working on it, or if it is gathering dust some where. >>> >>>Last time I spoke him (1.5 years ago) he was going for the dust. >> >>That's a tragedy. It was a very strong programs with a lot of interesting ideas >>implemented in it. His tablebase stuff was particularly clever. >> >>It would sure be nice if he would pop it up on source forge. >> >>But then again, maybe 10,000 chefs would spoil the stew. > >That won't happen. I asked him once, he said he didn't want it to get ripped >off like Crafty's (people changing a bit and pretending it was all theirs). Actually, the descriptions are more important anyway. There are a few places (however) where he never gives a pseudo-code snippet but only has a prose description of what he is doing. For those segments, it would be nice to nose around in the code. Maybe he could distribute a Winboard/Xboard binary instead, like many of the other free chess engines. Then people could enjoy his engine but could not alter it significantly.
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