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Subject: Re: Any info about SearcherX?

Author: Gian-Carlo Pascutto

Date: 06:08:18 05/28/01

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On May 28, 2001 at 06:30:20, Frank Phillips wrote:

>I would not be human if I did not take exception this.  I posted my day 2 diary
>before reading this post.

I realize it may have sounded a little offensive, but I just
wanted to point out I thought you really had an original program
and were not a Tiger clone.

>Yes my program is comparable to Crafty in structure - and Marsland's anatomy of
>a chess program description and tscp.  Many _ideas_ are taken from Crafty.  And
>from other publications (eg Dark Thought). And from here.  But _my_
>implementation and interpretation.  No other amatuers do this!

I understand this. My idea was that is perfectly possible to make
a near-top program in short time because so much information and
examples are available now. Everybody can use ideas from everybody
now, that was much harder say 10 years ago.

I gather my information about similarity to Crafty's structure
from your previous posts here. I cannot possibly judge how far
this similarity goes, as I have no code to see.

>Fours years is about correct.  I could not even do C when I started. Before >some attempts at programming recursive type games (Kalah and connect4, x0x)
>for BCC micro in basic, decades ago.

At the end of 1998 you did not know anything about chessprogramming
yet, hence you could not have been working on your program for that
long. (When I said you 'lied' I meant that I thought you deliberately
exaggerated because you felt attacked by Will's inquiries.)

--
GCP



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