Author: Tom Kerrigan
Date: 11:53:12 03/14/03
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On March 14, 2003 at 08:44:57, Matthias Gemuh wrote: >Hi Jose, >when you clone Pepito, it remains a Pepito clone. >When you clone TSCP, you will have thrown almost all data structures and >replaced a bunch of routines by the time you improve it by 200 Elo. >By the time you hit +300 Elo, you probably have a complex bitboard engine with >no trace of TSCP in it. That is the difference. >Regards, >Matthias. You can clone TSCP without improving it. Some clown named Josh Haglund (who was recently active on this board) "made" a TSCP clone a couple years ago called Squash. All he did was change some strings. He denied accusations that his program was a clone for a long time. The hilarious thing about Squash was the changelog--every time I released a new version of TSCP, Josh would release a new version of Squash with _exactly the same improvements_. The hilarious thing about Josh is that a few months ago, he started e-mailing me asking me how to implement some stupid ideas, e.g., searching each ply for a maximum of 5 seconds, and only searching 5 moves at the root of the tree. His e-mails made it clear that he couldn't program his way out of a wet paper bag. -Tom
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