Author: Dann Corbit
Date: 10:20:25 06/07/05
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On June 07, 2005 at 12:49:59, Reinhard Scharnagl wrote: >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, The code must be available to look at the snippet. >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, The open source does not excuse illegitimate use. >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, As it is for any chess programmer. The ones who take someone else's engine, and twist a screw, then stamp their name on it are criminals. >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. I submit that there is a place for both the articles and the code. >>>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. Every chess program that is open source is a legitimate open source project. >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. It is not the open source that corrupts. It requires corrupt people to cause the corruption. > >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. Inevitably, they are caught and disgraced.
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