Author: Tom Kerrigan
Date: 11:39:12 06/14/00
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On June 13, 2000 at 14:43:25, Dann Corbit wrote: >On June 13, 2000 at 14:28:06, Tom Kerrigan wrote: >[snip] >>>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. > >I'm not talking about cut and paste. Me neither. >>Stobor was around before Crafty was publicly available anyway. > >Crafty source has been around for ages. You must have been barely a teenager >when you started. Yes, 14 or 15. >>And as far as I know, no idea has been developed in Crafty. It's just another >>program. > >In all the discussions about crafty ideas and all the years of talking about >snippets of crafty code here in this forum and in news:rec.games.chess.computer >long before that, you never got a single good idea from it? At one point several years ago, I wasn't happy with my king safety algorithms and decided to borrow Crafty's. I tried to make them work for a few days, but for some reason, my program played much worse with Crafty's algorithms. I switched them back, and that has been my entire experience with Crafty. -Tom
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