Author: Uri Blass
Date: 03:30:23 10/31/05
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On October 31, 2005 at 06:16:54, Jonas Cohonas wrote: >This is something i have thought about for a while. > >The idea to have an open scource program i guess is so people can learn how the >structure of a chess program works, through a practical example and to provide >some insights into some of the deeper aspects of how it all works. > >Now for me atleast i think that Crafty has been such an example of the above and >wouldn't it be time for it to not be open scource anymore? >I mean people should be able to get from it (legally) what they need from >previous open scource versions of Crafty right? I think that today the only thing that people may need to get from Crafty is parallel search code. If the target is to learn from source code not about parallel search but about evaluation or about search algoprithm then it is better to use Fruit2.1 that is clearly better program. > >It would be very interesting to see if it would have any detectable impact on >the computer chess community as a whole if Crafty was not open scource anymore >and to see if Crafty would do better in tournaments in the future. I do not think that it will have detectable impact on the computer chess community. There are enough open source programs to learn from them. Uri
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