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

Author: margolies,marc

Date: 12:30:20 11/28/03

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this is the most ethically-challenged view of information management I have ever
heard in my Life. How can you attack the genrosity of Dr. Hyatt as a solution to
this problem of some student putting his mother on the phone with David Levy and
not answering questions.
Similarly, would argue for the abolition of money in order to prevent bank
robberies??(ie because people will always be greedy and banks get them in
trouble)





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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