Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 10:29:39 11/12/00
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On November 12, 2000 at 04:52:20, Severi Salminen wrote: >Hi! > >>>Well, I think that the latest is the best. Reason: Hyatt is the only person who >>>knows the most about his creation - so if he fixes something he most of the time >>>knows the best what he is fixing and why. Most of the new releases fix bugs from >>>previous versions. >> >>I agree, I always go with the most resent version of all Winboard engines that I >>use. I didn't check his revision notes on this latest version, so I don't have >>a clue what he might have revised, but I did find this one to play a paticularly >>brutal game of Chess against me. Admitedly I seldom play Chess anymore so I >>might be getting rusty(er), but this latest version seems pretty darn strong to >>me. > >I think there should exist a separate file consisting the list of modifications >at Hyatt ftp site. People should be able to easily read what was changed so they >would know what to expect from a new version. If they see that a passed pawn >code bug has been fixed, then it is _very_ likely that the program will play >stronger on average. No need to speculate. > >Severi It is there. In the source files. Look at the front of main.c... several thousand lines of comments detailing what happened in _every_ version of Crafty, back to 1.0...
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