Author: Omid David Tabibi
Date: 11:43:43 09/08/04
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On September 08, 2004 at 14:14:12, Matthew Hull wrote: >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? The average level of discussion in WCCC is several hundred Elo above that of CCC. > >BTW, good luck with Zappa, anealing, etc. > >Regards, > >> >>anthony
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