Author: Dann Corbit
Date: 19:54:37 01/26/99
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On January 26, 1999 at 21:26:29, Ren Wu wrote: >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. Neither does. But all the ideas needed are written up in postscript papers that can be collected from the net for nothing. >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? Neither, read it in postscript papers. >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. :) I may be bounded, but my derivative has singluarities, so I am not integrable. Besides which, I am often discontinuous... And I would also like to mention Aluminium.
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