Author: Jeremiah Penery
Date: 15:52:07 09/12/03
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On September 12, 2003 at 13:53:53, Uri Blass wrote: >On September 12, 2003 at 13:33:36, Gian-Carlo Pascutto wrote: > >>I can see what Bob does (credits to him for that), and I can test >>what he does, and I know it's worse than what I do. > >You need first to understand exactly what he does and it is not a simple task. >I think that most programmers have no time for that task and they prefer to work >about their program independently. > >They may look at Crafty but not try to copy everything there in order to compare >with Crafty. I bet GCP knows better what Crafty is doing than almost anybody else does. He did, after all, write complicated code for Singular Extensions in Crafty a while back. But even I (and I do not have the skill or knowledge to write an entire chess program by myself) can understand Crafty to a pretty large extent. I give Bob a *ton* of credit for writing what, to me, is extremely readable code. I've tried a few times to read the code of other chess programs and I get lost almost immediately in the sea of indecipherable variable/function names and the like. As far as chess programs go, Crafty is *EASY* to read and understand.
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