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Subject: Re: Endgame position revisited...

Author: Daniel Clausen

Date: 11:46:26 04/23/02

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On April 23, 2002 at 14:39:03, Uri Blass wrote:

>On April 23, 2002 at 14:35:00, Uri Blass wrote:
>
>>On April 23, 2002 at 14:12:55, Daniel Clausen wrote:
>>
>>>Am I the only one who thinks that the authors of the commercial engines won't
>>>post for the next few days since they will be busy introducing this great
>>>knowledge in their engines? ;)
>>>
>>>Sargon
>>
>>Probably you are the only one who thinks that the authors of the chess programs
>>copy algorithms from crafty.
>>
>>Junior does not know things that crafty knows and probably will never know.
>>Not every author of commercial engine copy from crafty.
>>
>>Shredder copied from crafty anti trojan algorithm and shredder does not let
>>opening the h file by capturing the piece at g5 even when it is good.
>>
>>It is not done by Fritz and Junior and I think that it will never be done in
>>most of the top programs.
>>
>>Uri
>
>Maybe I was too aggresive and I see the smile in your post but I do not expect
>the top programs to copy every new idea that is done in crafty espacially when
>the idea may give maybe only 1 elo.
>
>Uri

I didn't want to imply that commercial engine copy a whole lot from Crafty. It
was more meant in the sense that I think that Bob's analysis here is amazing and
 probably everyone who wrote an engine thought 'Gosh, I never even thought about
that!'. No pun intended to commercial engine authors! :)

Sargon



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