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Subject: Re: Review of ALEXS by Larry Kaufman

Author: Bruce Moreland

Date: 01:28:43 02/18/99

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On February 16, 1999 at 15:53:21, Dan Homan wrote:

>The author of Voyager admits (according to your post) to
>using crafty's book and hash code.  This, alone, is a
>significant piece of work taken from crafty.  To make
>efficient use of the book and hash code, however, it is
>clear to me that a significant amount of the crafty
>infrastructure was also likely to have been copied.
>One cannot just lift hash and book routines from crafty
>and drop them into an otherwise original program.  Bob
>can answer this better than I can, but these routines
>are usually integrated with other parts of the infrastructure
>in such a way as to make such a cut-n-paste difficult.
>(It also begs the question: if the author wrote
> the rest of the infrastructure of an advanced program,
> why borrow crafty code for the hash and book routines?)

The implication is that make_move and unmake_move are also used.

The implication from that is that the move generator is also used.

bruce



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