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Subject: Re: why not just write your own?

Author: Dan Honeycutt

Date: 10:39:00 06/09/04

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On June 09, 2004 at 10:57:40, Anthony Cozzie wrote:

>On June 09, 2004 at 06:32:00, Gopikrishna wrote:
>
>>Has anyone tried to compile Gerbil? When I tried to compile it in MSVC I am
>>getting the following error,
>>fatal error C1083: Cannot open include file: 'gproto.h': No such file or
>>directory. I even tried to include that file in my project and compiling but
>>still that error is occuring.So please help me.Thanks.
>
>Why don't you just read up on the algorithms and write something?  If you use
>piece-lists rather than bitboards you should be able to get something working in
>a month tops (searching 4 ply, but oh well).
>
>I don't understand all these people that insist on starting from someone else's
>code.  Algorithm descriptions are *always* easier to understand than code.
>
>anthony

When I started I learned a lot by single stepping Gerbil and other programs.  To
do that you have to compile them.  When I felt like I understood what was going
on, I started with a blank slate and wrote my own 4 ply searcher.  I've made
steady improvements and it now searches 5 plys.

Dan H.




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