Author: Uri Blass
Date: 11:44:10 03/18/04
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On March 18, 2004 at 13:44:50, Tord Romstad wrote: >On March 18, 2004 at 10:45:37, Robert Hyatt wrote: > >>On March 18, 2004 at 02:16:24, Peter Skinner wrote: >> >>>I am just throwing out ideas.. why does Crafty _seem_ to be behind so many now >>>when before it was leagues ahead... >> >>secrets vs no-secrets is the main issue... > >If you compare Crafty to the top professional engines, you are certainly right. >But I think Peter was referring to amateur engines. In this case, I doubt that >the secrets vs no-secrets issue has any great importance. With the possible >exception of Stefan Zipproth (Aristarch), I can't think of any amateur engine >at all which appears to contain any important secrets. I think that this assumption is wrong. I believe that a lot of programmers have important secrets but their program is weaker than Crafty because they did not get success in implementing basic stuff. Uri
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