Author: James Robertson
Date: 14:12:51 02/15/99
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On February 15, 1999 at 17:02:25, Jeff Anderson wrote: >On February 15, 1999 at 14:32:16, James Robertson wrote: > > >>I would suggest you stop releasing the source to Crafty. > >What good would this do now? So many people have Crafty source now, it would be >impossible to keep someone sufficiently motiviated from getting a hold of it. >The good definetly outweighs the bad for releasing the code. It is very >helpful >to many beginning chess programmers and would be sad if it was not available >anymore. >Jeff I think the best example of why to not release the source is the parallel search stuff "borrowed" by bionic; Crafty will undoubtedly utilize more and more huge pieces of very sophisticated code that can be stolen verbatim and used against amateurs. And to say that parallel search code is needed by beginning chess programmers is simply not true. James
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