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Subject: Re: I doubt that List is a crafty clone

Author: Roger D Davis

Date: 15:06:31 12/01/03

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On December 01, 2003 at 17:20:25, margolies,marc wrote:

>Why do you want to paint DC into a corner. He does not need to voice a strong
>opinion based on unavailable evidence and we already know what DC thinks about
>what he has seen--partially exculpatory evidence.
>We also know that we need the whole code-- and to compile it again-- then to
>check the output against tournament play-- in order to be sure we have seen the
>true code. (this was RH's observation) and then the truth will be very clear
>because Crafty's code is a known factor already.
>We also need to remember that the exe file is not the engine but constructs the
>engine in the machines memory (RH's observation(, so two very different-looking
>exe files can produce some similar results (my conclusion).

Maybe you knew what DC thought, but somehow I missed it. I did see that someone
posted his opinion from the Winboard forum, which was softened in his post here.
I asked Dann to expound because Dann is the C optimization guru on this board
and if he can't tell beyond a reasonable doubt, that leaves me wondering who
could. There was no disrespect to Dann intended.

Roger



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