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Subject: Re: Stormx is this a Crafty Clone??

Author: Uri Blass

Date: 03:14:52 05/25/04

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On May 25, 2004 at 05:48:02, Sean Empey wrote:

>No, it is not a clone of crafty. I will tell you that it does use Dan Corbit's
>big book and crafty's book code, and the same egtb code that is used in crafty
>18.15. Other than that not much else is from crafty. Oh some of the Print
>functions I referenced are from crafty 16.x if memory serves correct. Storm is a
>SMP engine and uses a completely different algorithm for its search eval. It
>uses ABDADA.I have offered portions of code to Professor Hyatt but on the terms
>it not be published or used by him or others. My move generator functions are
>completely different and I can not go into detail regarding them as some of the
>code came from a professional programmer (at least the approach) on the
>condition I not release that code ever. Because a program has similar evals does
>not make it a clone. If I wanted to clone crafty I would not have been working
>on Storm for years; actually starting about one year before CCT1. As I have told
>Professor Hyatt. I am not cloning crafty. We have talked and he is fine. Any
>other questions someone may have; I'm willing to answer them to the best of my
>ability. I would appreciate ad hominems and other unnecessary comments not be
>made as I have stated I'm willing to back-up my claim.
>
>Thank you
>Sean Empey

So what is the reason that you do not compete with that storm in WBEC(I guess
that it also can use a single processor)?

http://wbec-ridderkerk.nl/

I can only see there an old version storm0.6 that is not significantly better
than tscp.

Note also that when I try look at the page of Storm(following link) I get
message that I am not authorized to view it

relevant link:

http://www.specwar.com/downloads/chess/

Uri



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