Author: Tord Romstad
Date: 04:07:43 11/28/03
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On November 28, 2003 at 06:52:45, Odd Gunnar Malin wrote: >On November 28, 2003 at 06:44:48, Tord Romstad wrote: >> >>But still, my 64-bit random number generator is copied directly from >>Crafty's source code. Does this make my engine a clone? If you or >>somebody else thinks the answer is "yes", I will consider replacing >>the random number code in my next version, even though it will force >>my users to download the opening book again. >> >>Tord > >If you took it as it is without testing, yes I would think so. That's what I did. I did not test the code, I have not read Knuth's book, and I have no idea how the random number code works (I haven't even tried to read it). In order to spare my users from having to download the opening book again: Would it be acceptable to remove the random number generator from my engine, and instead use Crafty's random number generator to create a small binary file of random numbers for use in Zobrist hashing, and let my engine initialize its tables from this file at startup? I would then no longer have any part of Crafty's code in my engine, but I could still continue to use my old opening book. Tord
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