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Subject: Re: Building Crafty from source code vs running executable

Author: James Swafford

Date: 10:50:22 07/17/99

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On July 17, 1999 at 00:42:01, Steve Strickland wrote:


I believe Dr. Hyatt intended to provide a "starting point" for
those not wishing to spend a lot of time building a program from
the ground up.  Unfortunately, his generosity was abused by
some that would enter programs that were almost exact clones
into tournaments, or just outright steal source without giving
him any credit.

I started my program a couple years ago, so I was one of the
lucky ones who was able to study Crafty's source, and develop
my own implementation of the ideas within.  I learned all about
bitboards and rotated bitboards from the Crafty source.
I owe a huge debt to Dr. Hyatt, and I'm sure there are others
who feel the same.

--
James



>Can anyone explain to me why someone would want to download the source code
>files and build Crafty from the source code, rather than simply downloading the
>executable and book files?  Am I missing something?
>
>Also the large book consists of four files.  How do you make them into a single
>opening book?
>
>Thanks for any help you can give.
>
>Steve Strickland



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