Author: Matthew Hull
Date: 13:03:06 09/08/04
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On September 08, 2004 at 14:43:43, Omid David Tabibi wrote: >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. Expensive discussion, IMO, especially if you will not learn secrets of the professionals. In that case, it is no more informative than CCC, and so does not solve Anthony's problem. > > >> >>BTW, good luck with Zappa, anealing, etc. >> >>Regards, >> >>> >>>anthony
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