Author: Matthew Hull
Date: 07:04:42 10/30/03
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On October 30, 2003 at 09:39:51, Robert Hyatt wrote: >On October 30, 2003 at 04:56:17, Martin Andersen wrote: > >>On October 29, 2003 at 21:24:01, Fernando Villegas wrote: >> >>>Simple. Hyatts is no fully dedicated to Crafty, not being, as it is not, a >>>commercial endeavour. Hyatt is a scientist and as such I guess he expends 95% of >>>his time to research, teaching and the boring and long chores of academic jobs. >>>To become as strong as Junior, Hyatt should dedicate as many time to crafty as >>>Ban surely engages with his program. >>>Just my educated guess. >>>Fernando >> >>What Hyatt could do, in my dreams of course, is to >>start a project for example at http://sourceforge.org where >>Hyatt releases Crafty under the General public License. >>This will encourage others to participate, so Hyatt don't have to >>do all the development himself. >>Furthermore, there could be several versions of crafty, one of them >>focusing on playing strength and another on research. >> >>Martin. > > >I have actually thought about doing this, and it might be a workable >idea... Doesn't GNU Chess use this model? It does not seem to stay competitive, although Zarkov is based on it and is fairly strong, I think. MH
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