Author: Tord Romstad
Date: 04:42:51 02/24/06
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On February 24, 2006 at 07:17:11, Robert Hollay wrote: >On February 24, 2006 at 06:56:55, Tord Romstad wrote: > >>I am using the GPL, and haven't seen any problems. My experiences with >>open source are 100% positive, and I happy that I decided to release the >>source code. My program is probably stronger than most open source engines, >>but still nobody has tried to clone it. >> > >In your opinion what's the reason for that? Hard to say, because I don't really understand the cloner mentality. Perhaps cloners tend to always pick the strongest open source engine available. A few years ago, this was Crafty, and now it is Fruit. I would also like to emphasize that cloning is a rather infrequent phenomenon. That one particular open source engine has never been cloned is no big mystery. >Is it more difficult to find a room >for improvement in Glaurung than in Fruit or Crafty, Certainly not. >or the code itself is harder to understand? I would like to think that it is easier to understand (at least it is much shorter), but of course I am very biased. Unlike Fruit and Crafty, Glaurung isn't really optimized for speed or strength, but rather for simplicity and flexibility. I regard it as a vehicle for doing chess programming experiments rather than as a serious chess program. Tord
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