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Subject: Re: Bionic v Crafty - a possible solution

Author: Ren Wu

Date: 18:26:29 01/26/99

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On January 26, 1999 at 19:37:54, Dann Corbit wrote:

>On January 26, 1999 at 03:14:34, Ren Wu wrote:
>[mega-snip]
>>I agree what you said. But I think Bob will do much better to help computer
>>chess commmunity if he really start to write a introduction book with the source
>>code of a a working but somewhat simeple program.
>Pointless.  We already have that.
>   Beginner's program: TSCP.
>   More advanced: GNUChess.
>Why should Dr. Hyatt reproduce those in any degree?  Where will we go to learn
>the advanced techniques?

Pointless too.

Did TSCP and GNUChess come with a introduction book? You miss my point totally.

How many people get idea from source code faster than from english? Take the
rotate bitmap as a example, where did you get the idea faster? From Bob's posts
or from Crafty's source code?

I don't think that any advanced techniques has to be presented in a programming
language, like C.

>What he has done is shown thousands of chess programmers how to write a truly
>excellent, state-of-the-art chess program, with all of the most advanced
>techniques.

Yes, Crafty is a excellent program. But if you think that you get the
state-of-the-art of chess programming by looking the crafty's source, you are
wrong. And be careful, you may just be bounded. :)

Ren.



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