Author: David Dawson
Date: 05:07:20 03/26/99
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On March 26, 1999 at 01:58:10, KarinsDad wrote: SNIP > >A chess program is like a finely tuned race car. The cars from 15 years ago >could not touch the ones from today and the ones from 30 years ago could not >touch the ones from 15 years ago. Since computer programs have a much faster >turnaround time as compared to race cars, it is likely that Crafty 18.0 will be >100 to 200 points stronger than version 16.6 and people will be able to tell the >difference. > I just ran crafty 12.9 for a couple weeks in place of my normal 16.x version. 12.9 lost no rating points, and actually seemed to score better against a couple opponents. >As for people requesting the new versions, there are several ways to control >this such that any distributed version can be tracked back to the original >person who requested it. With this type of security and a legal agreement which >states that legal action will be taken if this is illegally distributed, would >you want to be the first one to take that chance? Yes, I would. But this seems like an awful lot of work to prevent... 'graffiti' > >Another idea is to not distribute the source at all. Instead, just distribute >pseudo code and/or comments. This would take all the fun out of crafty for me. Crafty is only crafty because it offers strenth, features, and modification ability all in 1 package :) > >Just my opinion on two ways to handle the situation. There are probably better >ways. > >KarinsDad :)
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