Author: Gerd Isenberg
Date: 10:21:10 09/08/04
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On September 08, 2004 at 10:06:33, Anthony Cozzie wrote: >Look, it really bothers me, but if you want to improve a program CCC is >worthless after a rating of 2200. hmm... >Obviously the commercial guys have no >interest in sharing their secrets (I don't blame them) but somehow their >attitude has rubbed off on all the amateurs. Tord as well as others are prime counter examples of this. Otherwise, if you are not a scientist in game theory or open source author, it is absolutely ok to keep your secrets. It is a competition. Of course for professionals it is essential to keep their secrets. >Uri is a prime example of this: >the guy has 300+ (!!) pages of results in the CCC engine, but he has _never_ >talked at _all_ about what goes on inside of Movei. Probably you didn't read all his posts carefully enough. I found Uri very instructive, may be a matter of taste. Asking questions is not only about to get something. There are interactions. >We don't even know >something as basic as whether Uri uses the mate threat extension. The same is true for me with your program. Probably i missed or didn't read carefully all of your posts. >I've >basically stopped contributing anything other than periodically smacking >Cracraft. Bob is really the only one who actually talks about what he does, >although some might say that open sourcing crafty has caused more problems than >solutions, considering all the clones that we have had. Seems if people really "improve" Crafty, they don't like to share their ideas anymore ;-) > I guess if I want to >talk to good chess programmers I have to show up at a World Championship. > What about talking with yourself? But yes, going to WCCC is important. Gerd >anthony
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