Author: Tord Romstad
Date: 02:16:03 11/10/05
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On November 09, 2005 at 19:27:47, Roger Brown wrote: >> >>When a program surpasses the best commercial programs the matter >>becomes more debatable, and I have no difficulties accepting that >>Fabien felt forced to hide his source with Fruit 2.2. A program on >>the level of Glaurung, however, is utterly harmless. Hiding the source >>wouldn't make any sense at all. > > > > >Hello Tord, > >I really "hate" these posts. > >I mean, what is the meaning of weak? I didn't use the word "weak" anywhere, as far as I can see. When I described it as "utterly harmless", I was talking about the availability of my source code. There is no risk that the source code of Glaurung can hurt the community in any serious way. You can't take the source code, change the executable name, add your name to it and sell it or use it to win world championships. Of course you could try, but the program just isn't strong enough. >Any possibility of including a strength weakening feature in the UCI 2 code? I actually had that for a while (in Glaurung 0.2.3, IIRC), but it didn't work very well and was removed in the next version. The strength weakening was achieved by calling the evaluation function multiple times at the same node, thus slowing down the engine. I plan to eventually implement some more intelligent form of strength weakening (not based on slowing down the search), but I am not sure when I will start working on it. There is so much else I would like to do ... Tord
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