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Subject: Re: How Many Lines of Code in Source for Chess Engine?

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 07:52:36 11/18/02

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On November 17, 2002 at 19:30:47, Bob Durrett wrote:

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>If it takes one year to write and debug 25,000 lines of code, [in Rookie 2],
>then how much more in modern successful chess engines?  I assume the GUI is not
>so bad.
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>If the answer comes out to be 50,000 or 100,000 lines of code, then this may be
>a lifetime project?
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>What am I missing?
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>Just Xerox Crafty and rename it?  [ A joke ]
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>Bob D.

Crafty is about 45,000 lines of code, as a reference point...

• Re: How Many Lines of Code in Source for Chess Engine? Tom Likens 12:14:15 11/18/02
  • Re: How Many Lines of Code in Source for Chess Engine? Georg v. Zimmermann 00:02:00 11/20/02
  • Re: How Many Lines of Code in Source for Chess Engine? Robert Hyatt 15:15:50 11/18/02
    • Re: How Many Lines of Code in Source for Chess Engine? Dieter Buerssner 15:23:17 11/18/02
      • Re: How Many Lines of Code in Source for Chess Engine? Tom Likens 18:37:28 11/18/02
        • Re: How Many Lines of Code in Source for Chess Engine? Robert Hyatt 20:08:14 11/18/02
      • Re: How Many Lines of Code in Source for Chess Engine? Robert Hyatt 16:54:17 11/18/02
      • Re: How Many Lines of Code in Source for Chess Engine? Dieter Buerssner 15:30:22 11/18/02
• Thx (nt) Bob Durrett 09:00:12 11/18/02

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