Author: Michael Cummings
Date: 04:08:02 02/05/03
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On February 05, 2003 at 07:03:52, Ulrich Tuerke wrote: >On February 05, 2003 at 06:57:19, Michael Cummings wrote: > >>On February 05, 2003 at 06:51:08, Hans van der Zijden wrote: >> >>>On February 05, 2003 at 06:40:02, Michael Cummings wrote: >>> >>>>Someone did that and called the crafty program Bionic, whatever happen to it? >>> >>>That was Hans Secelle from Belgium. For years he tried to make his Basic program >>>Bionic (Believe It Or Not It's Checkmate) strong enough to compete in the Dutch >>>open. When he did not succeed he decided to make changes to Crafty naming it >>>Bionic Crafty and he competed with that. Some programmers were not so happy with > >It had been called BIONIC IMPACT iirc. > >>>that, so he only competed once. Than he joined forces with Tom Vijlbrief >>>programmer from Ant. This team competed in every Dutch computertournament the >>>last couple of years. >>> >>>Hans. >> >>I remember a time here when the debate was on, because Boinic was winning things >>and they would not admitt it was crafty with a few changes. > >As far as I had understood, that's wrong. Hans had announced early before start >of the tournament that he was going to use a program which had been a kind of >merge of his evaluation and crafty's search. Nobody had complained. >Complains just started after Bionic began winning most of its games. >That's a bit late, imho. > >I think that Hans had behaved correctly. > >Uli I cannot remember what it was winning, because I never followed those matches anyway, I just read here all the posts complaining about it when it was winning and how they took Bobs program, and used it to win. I think they won some prize money or something. Which was another part of the debate, whether they deserved that. Because then the fights started that is was open source, so they could take it and use it if they wanted, even if they only changed a little bit of the original program.
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