Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 08:31:13 02/18/05
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On February 18, 2005 at 11:11:50, Charles Roberson wrote: > > If Crafty were stripped of all the code Bob doesn't want copied and > "crafty foundation" was released with Bob's restrictions. That may > alleviate some of the issues and be a boost to the community. > > Maybe > - take out the position evaluator and all the search code > + the calls to the iterative deepening routine are replaced with > a call to a random move maker. > o the legal move generator is left in > - maybe move ordering is taken out > - maybe efficient routines like (popcount,leftmostbit,rightmostbit....) > are replaced with inefficient routines > - maybe move ordering is simplified. > > Bob could complete the specification if he likes the idea. This would > give a simple program that plays only random moves but based on a firm > foundation. Giving them the chore of improving some of the inefficiencies > seems reasonable to me. > > Now, would tournaments all such a program could be a big question? > > The other possibility is the a document that describes the foundation code > in "fair" detail. Thus a person could learn and then do the work. > > Now, an algorithmic only document could be released for the search and > position evaluation and move ordering. It might not have much detail > But, maybe this is telling too much. > > Also, my apologies to Bob. My inclination is to refer as Prof. Hyatt, but > all others here refer as Bob. Bob works just fine. :)
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