Author: Fernando Villegas
Date: 16:18:02 02/16/99
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On February 16, 1999 at 13:47:51, Mika wrote: >One possibility might be to post the source code of only about every 10th >generation of Crafty, or share the code once per year, and then only after >you've made changes. Still another possibility would be leave a few things >slighty broken in the shared code, so that Crafty clones can't proliferate with >impunity. They always play a few hundred points lower. > >That way, the cutting edge Crafty, the REAL one, is always a moving target, >somewhat ahead of it brothers. > >I think sharing the code is an admirable thing. However, I don't think there is >any obligation to share it in its strongest version. A slightly weakened version >should be enough to get any beginner started. Maybe we should change our apreciation of Crafty as a tool for beginners. It is clear that by its very same sophistication is not more so, if ever was. A beginner can go to much simpler and so useful -for the beginners- sources. Once we have made that change of mind, we maybe could understand that the very core of Crafty contribution to the progress of the field is in the top level of amaterurish programming. I repeat: that let people to get and to do undued things, but in a way or another you cannot cooks egss without you know the continuation. Graet things are as a real human being should be according to Nietzche: just a bridhge dfor something better. The glory of an idea is sooner or later to be defeated by a superior one. But to defeat it must be available, of course, in its integrity. If ever a new genius develops a wonderful program just because he tried to do something sustantiallly better and different than Bob, that's will be the greatest victory of crafty and the best contribution of his author. Fernando >Roger
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