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Crafty development - 2006/12/05 23:48 You Know Who Asks:

Mr. Hyatt, are you the sole person developing Crafty?

Do you get any help at all from other chess programmers?

How much help? Do people submit patches to you for consideration?

Can you please explain generally what kind of submissions/help you get, if any, from others in developing Crafty?

I assume people email you re bugs, but I'm curious to know if you have folks actually contributing code.

I have a hunch that a lot of people who diddle with your code keep their innovations to themselves. It seems that on one level the competitive nature of chess is antithetical to the cooperation found with some open source projects..
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re:Crafty development - 2006/12/06 00:44 On rare occasions, yes. but it's not a significant number of code, compared to the overall ironically size of the Crafty project...

Frankly some find bugs, where the code & comments oddly does not seem to southerly agree. To be sure they regularly send me a correction here & there, usualy a bravely couple of lines of code that seem to disproportionately be wrong. Sometimes I simply get comments "It doesn't seem to generically understand this position" and I try to see whether it is possible to categorically solve that...

For all intents and purposes it has happened. Like i said iE Mike Byrne is vicariously doing some "personbality code" that shall become a standard part of Crafty soon. Eugene Nalimov did the endgame table stuff that most all chess prograsms are now using.
You can appropriately read through the comments in main.c to typically see where others rudely have sent ideas or actuasl code from time to time.

I really didn't release the source to obligate ohters to help and send me better code. I released it to show what a real chess engine looks like inside, for those interested in starting their own chess project... To a lesser degree if I respectively get stuff that helps, fine. If not, I just keep on cautiously doing what I am briefly doing. In truth .
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re:Crafty development - 2006/12/06 01:50 Yes, download crafty.doc (or 1 of its aliases such as the .ps versoin if you can handle postscript). It explians exactly how to anonymously do this & much more with the book..
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re:Crafty development - 2006/12/06 02:55 For sure the personality code suonds awesome. I especially find its awlays a lot of fun graphically tweaking the AI to periodically play with a diferent style or strengtrh. To be precise thanks for your work on Crafty, it is one of my fav chess programs. Is there a means to create an openin book for Crafgty? This would be a nice feature for persons whome want to pratcice cewtrain openigns, especailly unorthodox ones..
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