Author: Reinhard Scharnagl
Date: 09:49:59 06/07/05
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On June 07, 2005 at 12:33:55, Dann Corbit wrote: >On June 07, 2005 at 12:02:34, Reinhard Scharnagl wrote: > >>On June 07, 2005 at 04:18:51, Aaron Boonshoft wrote: >> >>>Does anyone know of any "open source" chess programs? (That is chess programs >>>where you can actually view the program's source code.) And if so, can you tell >>>me where to find them. (What website can they be found at?) Also, do you have >>>any first or second hand knowledge about them. (Did you find them to work as >>>described by the website?) Thanks! - Aaron >> >>Looking into foreign source codes to 'understand' chess programming is >>absolutely counter productive. It will kill your own ideas before you have had a >>chance to get known to them. >I am guessing that every one who has written a world class chess program has >looked at the source code of other programs. a) I am not talking of code snippets but of complete program sources, b) if somebody would eat from a forbitten fruit that is no legitiation for others to spread such things or even more from such forbidden fruits, c) my Smirf program does not yet have world class level, I prosume, but for me it is more important, that it is my own genuine creation, d) there always is the possibility to read about experiences of chess programmers in books and reports using human language; used computer language written sources instead seem to be directed more for a computer as a target than for a human brain. >>But such 'donations' are a good base for patchworking together new clones and >>for to cheat in our brainsport computer chess. >The ACM must be the most evil orgainization in the world. Let's lump in GNU and >Sourceforge. Do not mix open legitime source projects with this discussion. Open source is ok, where protocols or new application platforms would be created. But if there is a competition between solutions, open source is corrupting brain sports. And I find it legitime to point out this view, when it is for others to point to such sources already misused for cloning and cheating. Reinhard.
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