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Subject: Re: Bionic v Crafty - a possible solution

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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