Author: Dann Corbit
Date: 16:15:41 06/12/00
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On June 12, 2000 at 11:49:26, Tom Kerrigan wrote: [snip] >What do you mean by "influential"? Do you mean that people have copied code and >algorithms from Crafty, i.e., cheated? I don't think this is such a great >quality. There were some "sneak" crafty clones where the copiest claimed it was their original program. I don't think that did anyone any good. But there have been many more programs where someone has learned something by looking at crafty code and implementing the idea in their own program. There is nothing evil or underhanded in this. Is there not one single idea used in Stobor which has benefitted from some idea developed in crafty? >Crafty is obviously the highest-profile open source chess program, but I don't >see that it contributed anything new or innovative to the community. When I want to understand something advanced, I read the paper from whereever first. Then I look at the crafty code. Then I trace through it. I can't think of any faster way to understand what is going on. I think that for advanced techniques, a study of crafty will save you ten years of pounding your head against the wall. Maybe that's not new or innovative, but I am rather glad of it.
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