Author: Reinhard Scharnagl
Date: 00:23:56 08/28/04
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On August 27, 2004 at 22:53:04, Stuart Cracraft wrote: Hello Stúart, personally I try to avoid inspecting foreign chess program sources, because that only would corrupt one's ideas and phantasy. I claim that analysing chess program code from other people mostly would be counter productive and would give one no real benefit at all. There are exceptions, where special problems of a language like C++ would be discussed, but that mostly is independent from any chess know how. Of course there had been benefits and learning effects from such discussion threads. Creating a chess program by "patchworking" it from different sources hardly could be recognized as a success. Thus doing so can easyly lead to situations where such "recycled" code would appear as an "own" chess engine, frustrating and unfairly pushing back the elaborates of serious people. I cannot see, how the publishing of chess program sources especially as a full packet could produce any benefit. Instead it could be more helpful to publish articles or books on that theme but not including any compilable sources. Regards, Reinhard. >So, what has been the experience of >computer chess program authors here >who have a) asked questions, reworked >their code based on the input from >other board members, vs. perhaps doing >a) and then additionally b) releasing >their code publically for comment? > >a == b? >a>>b? >a<<b? > >In terms of your program's progress thereafter... > >Thanks, > >Stuart
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