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Subject: Re: Is the Crafty-Sjeng match complete?

Author: James Swafford

Date: 11:27:38 11/09/02

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On November 09, 2002 at 13:57:51, Uri Blass wrote:

>On November 09, 2002 at 13:26:12, Vincent Diepeveen wrote:
>
>>On November 09, 2002 at 11:48:09, Wayne Lowrance wrote:
>>
>>>On November 09, 2002 at 04:48:36, Gian-Carlo Pascutto wrote:
>>>
>>>>On November 09, 2002 at 01:08:35, Peter Kappler wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>On November 09, 2002 at 00:09:45, Robert Hyatt wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>><snip>
>>>>>
>>>>>>I would expect that a match with your program would be tough.  You have
>>>>>>repeatedly said that you copied most everything from my eval, and then
>>>>>>added some things on your own.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>If this is true, I find it extremely depressing.
>>>>>
>>>>>GCP, say it ain't so...
>>>>
>>>>Lol, it isn't.
>>>>
>>>>What I said was that when I saw a good idea in Crafty
>>>>that wasn't already in Sjeng, I would not hesitate to
>>>>'steal' it.
>>>>
>>>>I also said I know from looking at your code that there
>>>>aren't many things Crafty knows that Sjeng doesn't know,
>>>>but that the reverse isn't true.
>>>>
>>>>The above doesn't mean that I copied your eval and
>>>>added stuff of my own.
>>>>
>>>>--
>>>>GCP
>>>
>>>What percentage of your eval is Dr Hyatt's in terms of performance contribution.
>>>Example you might say that only 10 % of the idea's are Dr Hyatts but that 10 %
>>>might equate to 50 % of the eval performance, or, the reverse could be the case.
>>> I think you need to clarify this for your own image ( if that is important to
>>>you).
>>>Let's not leave any doubt's about your program authenticity either way. My
>>>opinion only
>>>Thanks
>>>Wayne\
>>
>>the knowledge in crafty is so basic and so very rude and primitif that
>>you cannot possibly call it 'bobs ideas'.
>
>I think that saying that the knowledge of another program is primitive is not
>polite.
>

Especially when your own source code is not available to scrutinize.

--
James



>I believe that most free programs have less knowledge in their evaluation
>relative to crafty.
>
>Uri



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