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Subject: Re: why not just write your own?

Author: Andrew Wagner

Date: 11:10:01 06/09/04

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On June 09, 2004 at 13:39:00, Dan Honeycutt wrote:

>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.

Hmm, that's right about where I am with Trueno. Do you have an account on ICC?
Would be neat to do a little match. Andrew



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