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Subject: Re: Read the older Review about ELChinito (English) ...

Author: José Carlos

Date: 15:50:18 08/22/04

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On August 22, 2004 at 16:20:03, Frank Quisinsky wrote:

>On August 22, 2004 at 15:59:58, Paul H wrote:
>
>Hi,
>
>>I cannot see why the history of ElChinito is relevant here.
>
>Do you really doubt that the history is not interesting.
>
>Example:
>You find a new engine and the engine is very good what do you make.
>
>I look in my CC database and search the engine.
>I try to find out more about the engine!
>
>Bob had written:
>"If you see a strong program that doesn't participate anywhere, something is up,
>in at least 99% of the cases."
>
>A good comment!
>Reason enough to add the older review because you have to know that not only
>programmers read this forum. A lot of persons are happy for each information
>about programs.
>
>Perhaps you understand now why I have add the older review!
>We speak here about a chess programmer with more as 20 years have knowledge
>about programming (Eugenio).


  Frank,
  History might give a *clue*. You might suspect of a new programmer with a
strong program. You probably won't suspect of an old time well known chess
programmer.
  But a proof is a proof, no matter if you had a clue to search for the proof or
if you simply found it by chance.
  That's the misunderstanding, I think. Eugenio is well known and most people
wouldn't suspect of him, but now that you have a proof, history and clues are
not relevant anymore.

  José C.



>>What is being discussed is the binary ElChinito.exe, and that it was built using
>>Crafty code (including the wrong [buggy] Crafty code).
>
>This is a proof!
>
>>It does not matter how long ElChinito.exe was written, when it was written and
>>who wrote it. Even if Uri wrote ElChinito.exe, it does not change the fact that
>>the binary is from the Crafty source code. Even if Uri wrote it in 2000 and it
>>took him 4 years to do so and he has won many tournaments with it.
>>
>>No one here is interested in personality or history. This is a purely technical
>>issue.
>
>:-)
>Please make not the same mistake I made in the past.
>In your message you cann't write "No one here is interested" ...
>
>You can write:
>I believe no one here is interested ...
>
>>If BMW copies the design of a Mercedes engine, it does not matter how many years
>>it took them to do it or how many awards they get with it or how many cars they
>>sell with it. It is still a copy. What's even worse is if the BWM engine has a
>>bad design and Mercedes copied that too.
>
>You can find to each case a good example!
>For a pro and a contra position!
>
>The main problem in fora systems :-)
>
>Best
>Frank



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