Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 07:40:33 10/30/03
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On October 30, 2003 at 10:04:42, Matthew Hull wrote: >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 I don't know. The question will turn into "how good are the people that get involved?" That is impossible to answer until after it happens.
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