Author: Bruce Moreland
Date: 23:01:13 01/23/99
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On January 24, 1999 at 01:02:08, Robert Hyatt wrote: >On January 23, 1999 at 11:52:41, Frank Quisinsky wrote: > >>Hello, >> >>sorry for my bad english. >> >>I don't understand the excitement. >> >>I have played over 400 games with Crafty. A very beautiful program. Compliment >>Mister Hyatt, also for your informative contributions in the Newsgroups. >> >>The Source code of Crafty is free. >> >>Other programmers use this code and that, OK is. Or why the code is free! >> > >the code is 'free' so that the things done in crafty can be seen and used as >examples of things to try, things not to try, etc. But that is a _far_ cry from >taking a program that is pretty mature, and entering a slightly modified version >of it in a tournament where the other participants spent their many man-hours of >work to write their own code, And then they run into a program that is 2x >faster than theirs because that program uses a parallel search developed by >someone else. Or even a very modified version of it. You still end up being co-author, I believe. If you enter your own version, you are in twice. If you don't want to enter at all, you are entered against your will. We had two Crafties in Jakarta 1996. That was a weird case because there was miscommunication and one of the Crafties was entered by the host country, which had no other entries. I'd really hate to have that happen again though. bruce
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