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

Author: Matthias Gemuh

Date: 07:51:36 11/28/03

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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




Too late !  Nobody can clean the internet of Crafty source code.
And there is also Amy, Pepito, Phalanx, ...
Cloners have a gene defect, which permits them to feel satisfaction
when their clones are using the "stolen" strength successfully in tournaments.

I however feel it is OK to "steal" FirstBit(), LastBit(), BitCount(),
Random() and AlphaBeta() algorithms/code.

/Matthias.





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