Author: Daniel Clausen
Date: 00:44:12 10/30/03
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On October 29, 2003 at 21:18:10, William Dozier wrote: >Good Day every/one. Perhaps someone can answer this question: Crafty >has been around for a long time; how many of you remember crafty when it >first came out in the old CCC news/paper? Since that time a lot of strong free >chess programs have been out, but why is crafty not as strong as Junior or >Shredder and a feww other chess programs? I get the feeling that just because >its free, that it can/not become as strong as Shredder or Junior. So what is >the hold back for Crafty being************* > stronger and better than Shredder or Junior? Two main issues come to mind: -Since it comes with source-code, there's no way for him to use special tricks only he knows. I'm sure every commercial does a few things only they do/know. -At the top, it's very important to tune the engine. I guess commercial programmers simply invest more time in that than Bob, for obvious reasons -*cough* opening book *cough* :) -and probably others Nevertheless it's a great engine in many aspects, few of them are: -it runs more or less everywhere (esp. non-Windows guys are glad about that) -it's a great source to get ideas for your own chess engine (that doesn't mean copy/paste, but looking at all the comments in the eval() surely gave me lots of ideas I want to try) -etc :) Sargon
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