Author: James Swafford
Date: 06:56:59 03/07/01
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On March 07, 2001 at 03:51:15, Slater Wold wrote: >I am fairly new to computer chess, I guess I might have a year or so into it. >However, I have been playing chess for about 2 years. Computer chess, is a >beautiful mix. An ancient pastime being played with 20th century technology. >It is amazing. Yes it is. It's quite a lot of fun trying to create models for the game of chess. [snip] > >Crafty is the hands down king, of open source programs. I don't know a lot of >people who would dispute that fact. I often wonder how much stronger Crafty >would be, if it wasn't open source. Would it be as strong as Fritz or Junior? >Perhaps stronger? I once saw Crafty (on Hyatt's machine) beat Deep Fritz on a >dual Pentium III 973mhz machine, 4 times in a row. I was in awe. Probably no stronger... perhaps you mean how much "weaker" the competition would be? Difficult to say, but I prefer not to assume everybody with a strong engine has ripped from Crafty. Let's have a little faith in fellow man. :-) [snip] > >I am not sure if I am wild about the fact that people rip off Crafty. Modifying >it a tad, and then playing it as their own program. But plagerism has been >around a long time. And I am sure it's not going to go away anytime soon. But >I am sure that Hyatt had an idea, that people would do this the day he opened >Crafty's source to the public. I am not sure what the technical limits would >be, of modifying Crafty enough to make it "yours" but I am sure that a lot of >programs, a lot more than Robert, you or I know of, that are nothing more than >Crafty's, with someone else's ideas in them. I agree with you here. It seems there are a lot of Crafty clones floating around. How boring. :-) > > >Robert Hyatt gives the computer chess community so much. He is an assistant >professor, he is a moderator here @ CCC, he hosts the crafty mailing list, he >answers all his e-mail regarding crafty, he offers us his hard work, his years >of knowledge, his dedication. And never asks anything more than to not play >"Crafty" on ICC or FICS more than 4 times in a row. (A wish that most people >don't respect.) What does being a professor have to do with his contributions to computer chess? But he has made a lot of contributions, no doubt... > >Mr. Hyatt, I thank you. For everything you do, for everything you give. For >helping the newbies, to the development of one of the best chess programs ever. >For sharing your secrets, to hosting an FTP site where we can get your program, >tablebases, and more. Thank you so much sir. What you give, is priceless. Well said. Here here! > >Also, I would like to thank Bruce Moreland, Ed, Christophe, and all the other >programmers, and veterans who help us all out everyday. Your dedication, and >help is also greatly appreciated. There are numerous other programmers (like Kerrigan, Stanback, Dart, etc.) and several non-programmers (like Steve (ICD), Quisinky (sorry for the spelling), etc etc etc etc!). > >Deeply Appreciative, >S.W.
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