Author: Tord Romstad
Date: 18:08:15 02/09/05
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On February 09, 2005 at 16:40:12, Harald Lüßen wrote: >I have my own little chess engine (Elephant) and I am often looking >in the CCC or in the www for good ideas and tricks. I do the same, of course. :-) >Reading other sources is an easy way to do it but I don't want to >copy them. My fear is that I am losing the ability to think my >own way. You seem to have the right spirit, and I don't think that studying the code of others will prevent you from developing interesting ideas of your own. >I think you started a discussion of publishing your >code or not a few month ago. I did. At that time, I thought that future versions of my program would not be open source. Now I am no longer sure. I have received more feedback than I expected about the source code, and almost all of it is positive. I am also less worried about the cloning problem than I used to be. Cloning doesn't seem to be very common, and in the unlikely event that a Glaurung clone ever appears on the scene, I think it would be rather easy to spot it. >Do you want to see my code? Thanks, I would love to, especially if you think it would be feasible to port it to Mac OS X. I would like to have a wide variety of programs of different strengths. >On the other side my program is weak and slow and will not >harm the top engines. And there is always the transformation >process of algorithmic ideas to my own engine. Curiosity will >win and I will inspect your code. Great, that's the purpose of the code. I am always happy to see that people are actually interested in it. >The last few weeks I was too >lazy to do any programming work at home anyway. Some day I will >continue my work with new energy. Good luck with Elephant! Tord
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