Author: Steven Edwards
Date: 20:10:26 05/05/05
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On May 05, 2005 at 21:59:42, Dann Corbit wrote: >On May 05, 2005 at 21:52:42, Dave Potesta wrote: >>I always assumed that all the engines out there were original, >>I guess not. Most don't even say it. >> I guess the Chess Programmer world is even smaller than I once thought. >> >> Which engines are clones? > >All of them in one sense -- the ideas are all borrowed from others. The amount >of stuff that's truly original in any chess engine is probably about 5% on >average. The above comment is a bit general, but isn't too far from the truth. And kind of sad as well. For the record, Symbolic's ChessLisp interpreter and the Lisp move selection source represent 30K+ lines of source that won't be found in any other program. The same could be said of the 65K line C++ toolkit except for the parts I lifted from Spector.
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