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Subject: Re: What are the Top 10 Computer Chess Algorithms & Techniques?

Author: Tom Kerrigan

Date: 11:28:06 06/13/00

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On June 12, 2000 at 19:15:41, Dann Corbit wrote:

>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?

Definitely not. I do not need (and have not used) Bob's code to write a good
program.

Stobor was around before Crafty was publicly available anyway.

And as far as I know, no idea has been developed in Crafty. It's just another
program.

-Tom



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