Author: Duncan Roberts
Date: 14:15:04 12/22/03
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On December 22, 2003 at 16:20:08, Uri Blass wrote: >On December 22, 2003 at 15:20:58, Duncan Roberts wrote: > >>I do not have these programs or know what they look like but if the owner of >>fritz for example would send you a small program called positionfritz.exe that >>lets you send a position to the fritz executable and give you an answer in >>however long you would want it. > >It is not going to happen. what is the reason for this. ? If somebody developed such a gui and it was significantly stronger than any individual program, people would want to buy it. They would also need positionfritz.exe, positionjunior.exe etc which would earn extra money for the owners of fritz etc. So there would be a monetary incentive for fritz etc to co-operate with it. >> >>so you would type positionfritz 180 fritz and in 3 minutes you will get a move >>back. >> >>I do not know whether the fritz engine would have to be recompiled for this or >>not. so he may have to also send you a new fritz executable. >> >> >>you would then be using your own gui to make the moves. >> >> >>your code would be : >> >> >>if position() == OPEN call positionfritz 180 fritz; >>if position() == CLOSED call positionjunior 180 junior; >> >> >>gui = position(); >> >> >> >>they could also give you presumably a cut-down not too sophistiacted version of >>code which recognises open,closed positions, beginning and end games. >> >> >>If you had the above, how long would the job take for an average competent >>programmer.? > >I do not know >I do not have my own gui and I use winboard for my engine and I am not >interested in doing this but in improving my engine. > >I think that in theory it can be simple but the question is if it is possible >practically to earn much from it. > >I do not guess that closed open position is a good division of positions that >can help because it is not the case when in 80% of the cases one program is >better in open position when the second is better in closed position. > >It is possible to say that one program is better in some type of endgames but >the gain that you can get from it is probably clearly smaller than 100 elo and >you need to know the programs for this. > >I suggest first to try to use it for free engines that come with source code. > >Crafty and Pepito come with source code. >Can somebody generate a significant stronger engine then them based on the >source code of them? > >Uri
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