Author: Shep
Date: 02:07:51 09/26/02
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On September 24, 2002 at 21:19:18, Arshad Syed wrote: Not going to give my own speculations here ;-) but will comment on some of yours nevertheless: >Also, regarding the theories that it may be a Fritz clone, it would mean that >the author actually un-compiled the Fritz dll's (WOW!!), modified it a tad and >then recompiled it. Even Bill Gates couldn't do that! Now that the engine is Actually you _can_ disassemble a DLL, though it'd take ages to make sense of the generated code. ;-) But that's not necessary. All you'd need is some good knowledge of the Chessbase GUI protocol and you could write a wrapper which encapsulates the original engine (remember that's how they got The King to work in the Chessbase GUI). I'm _not_ saying this is the case, mind you! >available for download, could a binary comparison against Crafty be done? If No sense, since any decent programmer trying to pass a clone as his own would at least modify the resulting .exe so that binary comparison wouldn't yield a thing. >there is no similiarity, let us give the author due credit. Considering he >started effort in 1998, his programs ascent to the top is very remarkable. A And it's possible. Remember that e.g. Christophe Theron wrote his Chess Tiger for years (up to version 10) and never made it even remotely close to the top. Then he decides to restart from scratch and produces the strongest program so far. Sometimes it's just like "finding the magic" - many programs made a giant leap in their history (like Hiarcs 4->6, Junior 3->4.6, Chess Tiger 10->11). Don't forget how closely they studied Bob Beamon's 8.90m jump. :-) --- Shep
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