Author: Roy Eassa
Date: 10:29:04 03/25/02
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On March 25, 2002 at 13:21:04, Dann Corbit wrote: >On March 25, 2002 at 13:00:11, Sune Fischer wrote: >[snip] >>My personal favorite is Beowulf, it is much more readable than Gerbil IMO. > >The main idea of Beowulf is a chess learning platform. Special effort was made >to help in readability, etc. I think it can be improved yet more in that >aspect. Gerbil has some very good ideas in it that are not found in Beowulf or >in most other chess engines. The basic framework is very good and the idea of >callbacks makes the chess engine part very easily replaceable. For that reason, >Bruce's framework could very easily be used for a generic engine to winboard >interface (which is often the trickiest part to get right). > >>Crafty is also not bad once you get the hang of it, I get ideas everytime I look >>at it :) > >It's the "N-reactor"[1] of chess engines. If there is a chess technique you >would like to study, it's probably in there. > >[1] The N-reactor was the most complicated machine in the world. There was not >any single human on earth that could even tell you how it worked. It had gangs >of 24-way valves connected to gangs of 24-way valves. Dann, as usual I get a laugh or an education (or both) from your posts. I tried doing a quick search on N-reactor but couldn't find anything useful. You say it "was" the most complicated machine in the world. OK, you've piqued my curiosity. Why past tense? And WHAT WAS ITS PURPOSE??
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