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Subject: Re: Regarding CCC/CTF relationships

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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