Author: Tom Kerrigan
Date: 19:38:44 06/27/00
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On June 27, 2000 at 21:24:44, leonid wrote: >On June 27, 2000 at 15:57:47, Tom Kerrigan wrote: > >>On June 27, 2000 at 15:37:27, leonid wrote: >> >>>On June 27, 2000 at 14:08:55, Tom Kerrigan wrote: >>> >>>>On June 26, 2000 at 20:27:27, leonid wrote: >>>> >>>>>On June 26, 2000 at 13:34:51, Tom Kerrigan wrote: >>>>> >>>>>>Just go through search.c of TSCP. It is a few hours of work that will save you >>>>>>years of continued confusion. >>>>>>-Tom >>>>> >>>>>Thanks, Tom! Will try to do it some day. I do have some confusion but it is >>>>>about words and not about logic. >>>>> >>>>>Leonid. >>>> >>>>No, I think your confusion is about both. >>>>-Tom >>> >>>Tom, I doubt that you ever read a Bible. After the script, it is only Almighty >>>that can create its first chess program from zero up. He could be confused or >>>know nothing about logic. Never mind! He will succeed anyway. He will proceed, >>>in making its first prototype of program, by using his Magic. So, you slightly >>>exaggerate when you think that I could do the same. Make my program when my >>>logic was absent. You take me for the God itself. In reality, I only started >>>like Him, from nothing. Later I did my writing after strict and clear logic. Was >>>incapable to do otherwise since I had no better method to choose from. I had no >>>God's Magic to succeed! >>> >>>Leonid. >> >>I am not denying the fact that you started from scratch or that you have written >>a chess program. >> >>But you are clearly confused about how to write a competitive chess program, >>which prompted my suggestion about TSCP. >> >>If your goal is not to write a competitive chess program, then I suggest you >>stop posting on CCC. Nobody can understand your posts, and you do not act on any >>suggestions; the net effect is that you are creating confusion and ill will. >> >>If your goal IS to write a competitive program, you need to start paying >>attention to people. As is, you are getting lots of good help from people, and >>it's all going to waste. >> >>-Tom > >Tom, I am sometime in Chess Club not that much for finding how to write my >program, not even how do it competitive. This I can do alone. This is simple. I >am here mainly to go "gossip" a little bit about chess programming and verify >some parameters in program. Recently it was about "effective branching factor", >raw speed of certain part of my program, and so like. Sometime it is very easy >to find what you are been looking for. Like explanation that I found one day >about "extensions", when I even not knew that they existe. Sometime it is not >so. You can talk to somebody and find more about personality of man that about >data that you need. And what I never, ever expected is that this place is so >serious. You must take special care for using only precise, sacred words. >Otherwise, you will be never understood and left in silence. If I started e-mailing you with made-up terms like "general orientation" and expected to be understood, I bet you wouldn't be so happy with the situation either. -Tom
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