Author: Matthew Hull
Date: 11:14:12 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. 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. 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. One gets the impression that you would prefer it to remain that way, since Uri's mode of communication grates on your nerves. >We don't even know >something as basic as whether Uri uses the mate threat extension. 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. I guess if I want to >talk to good chess programmers I have to show up at a World Championship. Were you told that the pro's share their secrets at WCCC? BTW, good luck with Zappa, anealing, etc. Regards, > >anthony
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