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Subject: Re: For programmers that their program is at least close to crafty level

Author: Mark Young

Date: 13:51:21 12/21/02

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On December 21, 2002 at 16:26:14, Uri Blass wrote:

>On December 21, 2002 at 16:19:44, stuart taylor wrote:
>
>>On December 21, 2002 at 15:06:50, Uri Blass wrote:
>>
>>>On December 21, 2002 at 14:38:36, Wayne Lowrance wrote:
>>>
>>>>On December 21, 2002 at 14:13:42, Russell Reagan wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>On December 21, 2002 at 12:49:34, Uri Blass wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>>I believe that I have ideas that can help your program to get to commercial
>>>>>>level or better than it in the next year.
>>>>>
>>>>>I have a hard time believing this. If you were serious about this, you could
>>>>>spend the time to implement known ideas, and then you'd have a program
>>>>>approximately on Crafty's playing level. Then you could spend a year adding your
>>>>>revolutionary ideas, and you could sell it and then you would get 100% of the
>>>>>profits instead of having to split it.
>>>>>
>>>>>If you have so many great ideas, why is Movei not commercial strength (or even
>>>>>close)?
>>>>
>>>>Took the words right out of my mouth
>>>>Thanks
>>>>Wayne
>>>
>>>I plan to continue to improve the strength of movei and maybe when it gets
>>>closer to be commercial strength there is going to be bigger chance that people
>>>are going to be interested in buying my ideas.
>>>
>>>I am going to release a new version in the near future.
>>>It is still not close to be commercial level but clearly better than the public
>>>version.
>>>
>>>Movei of today still knows nothing about king safety and almost nothing about
>>>pawn structure(only double pawns) but I plan to improve it.
>>>
>>>Uri
>>So what's your problem that you can do something better with someone ELSES
>>program?
>>Is there some banned substance in Israel or something?
>>S.Taylor
>
>I believe that my talent is ideas and not programming.
>I do not think about changing the source code of another program but about
>telling ideas that can help to improve programs.
>
>Uri

Many people have had ideas, and I'm sure people have come up with your ideas
before....The problem is some ideas can not be programmed.



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