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

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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