Author: Tord Romstad
Date: 12:13:52 03/18/04
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On March 18, 2004 at 14:44:10, Uri Blass wrote: >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. When was the last time you asked some amateur programmer about some of the internals of the engine and didn't get a good answer? I cannot recall a single instance when I have asked a question and the author refused to answer. Tord
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