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Subject: Re: Programmers who refuse to share their programs

Author: blass uri

Date: 07:44:03 11/14/99

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On November 14, 1999 at 06:46:10, Bella Freud wrote:
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>I might also add that his "sharing" leads to underperformance as his competitors
>steal his ideas (parallel, bitboards) and return him nothing but abuse.
>Therefore any competent programmer will always be able to produce an end-product
>that is better than his Crafty.

In theory you are right but practically most of the top programs are not better
than crafty(at least at slow time control).

Crafty16.6 won rebel in the 1 hour per move games of Ed.

I also know that most of the top programs cannot use parallel search and



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