Author: Alex Newman
Date: 18:38:10 03/09/05
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On March 09, 2005 at 21:23:43, Dann Corbit wrote: >On March 09, 2005 at 20:45:35, Alex Newman wrote: > >>On March 09, 2005 at 20:29:50, Dann Corbit wrote: >> >>>On March 09, 2005 at 20:27:09, Alex Newman wrote: >>> >>>>I can take the source code of Crafty and make an engine stronger then Crafty in >>>>less then a week. >>> >>>And then two years later, the latest crafty will blow your doors off, no matter >>>how much effort you put into your clone upkeep. >>> >>>That is from understanding one gear in the motor, but not even how to do a >>>proper tune up. >>> >>>Believe It Or Not It's Crafty. >> >>I just wanted to point that excuse by Toga author that Toga is stronger then >>Crafty doesn't mean anything. Anyone can do what he did with Toga. >>It's slap in the face to all authors who spent years developing their engines. >>Toga guy probably spent just a couple of months working on it. > >This is possible. It is also possible that he has been working for years or is >very gifted. > >I think right now, we do not have all the facts. > >It is possible for someone to read the crafty code and read fruit code and write >a very strong chess engine if they understood it. > >I think (from a standpoint of probability) that some copying may have taken >place and maybe even blatant, wholesale cloning. But before making any >judgements, we should collect all the facts and also the clear statements of the >one claiming to be the author. > >Right now, the information we have is ambiguous at best. Evidence presented so far is more then enough for me. Did you read all the posts?
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