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Subject: Re: Regarding CCC/CTF relationships

Author: Dan Honeycutt

Date: 12:49:55 09/08/04

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On September 08, 2004 at 10:06:33, Anthony Cozzie wrote:

>Look, it really bothers me, but if you want to improve a program CCC is
>worthless after a rating of 2200.  Obviously the commercial guys have no
>interest in sharing their secrets (I don't blame them) but somehow their
>attitude has rubbed off on all the amateurs.   Uri is a prime example of this:
>the guy has 300+ (!!) pages of results in the CCC engine, but he has _never_
>talked at _all_ about what goes on inside of Movei.  We don't even know
>something as basic as whether Uri uses the mate threat extension.

He doesn't since he uses > 1 ply check extensions.
http://www.talkchess.com/forums/1/message.html?385924



  I've
>basically stopped contributing anything other than periodically smacking
>Cracraft.  Bob is really the only one who actually talks about what he does,
>although some might say that open sourcing crafty has caused more problems than
>solutions, considering all the clones that we have had.  I guess if I want to
>talk to good chess programmers I have to show up at a World Championship.
>
>anthony



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