Author: Severi Salminen
Date: 13:34:50 11/12/00
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>>>>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... Yes, I know that changes are in main.c. But I think the most of users don't download the source code to find out what has been changed. Many don't probably know where they can find change list. There should be a separate file containing this info. It would decrease the amount of speculation of Crafty's strenght between versions. Severi
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