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Subject: Re: Crafty - did it do more harm than good??

Author: Grzegorz Sidorowicz

Date: 07:45:54 11/28/03

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I agree with you.
But on other hand for me Crafty source code is trash :-)
I don't understand it :-) and it can't help me :)))
...and it is not only my opinion....it is too big, too complicated.


On November 28, 2003 at 10:20:42, Rick Rice wrote:

>I feel that people really don't need anything more than TSCP to get started.
>After that, they should do their own theoretical research, to take their program
>to a higher level. Crafty hasn't really helped much, than promote plagiarism.
>Prof. Hyatt should do the chess programming community a favor by removing the
>source code from his web site. Instead, some articles by him about chess
>programming theory should suffice. This way, people will not be doing a
>wholesale cut-n-paste.
>
>Just my 2 cents worth. I could be wrong. What do you all think??
>
>Regards,
>Rick



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