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

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 21:28:32 07/17/99

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On July 17, 1999 at 13:50:22, James Swafford wrote:

>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
>


Please.... stick with "Bob" here.  I get enough of the "Dr." nonsense on a
day to day basis...  :)




>
>
>>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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