Chrilly Donninger's quote was probably mostly true in the 90s, but it's now obsolete. That intellectual protectionism was motivated by the potential economic profit of having a strong engine. It probably slowed down computer chess for decades, until the advent of strong open-source programs. Paradoxically, when the economic incentive to create strong engines was removed, we saw an explosion in strength.
Álvaro. On Tue, Jan 30, 2018 at 2:14 PM, "Ingo Althöfer" <3-hirn-ver...@gmx.de> wrote: > Hi, > > GCP wrote: > > ... > > > Of course, in the end, strength is the best way to tell that your > > > implementation is correct :) > > > > In other words, do not take "correct" as necessarily meaning "matching > > the published research". > > Chrilly Donnninger, one of the computer chess gurus in the 1990's and > the early 200x's (project Hydra) had an expressed opinion: > "Those who know, do not publish. > And those who publish do not know." > He himself violated this rule in the early 1990's when he published > a price-winning paper on how to implement null-move search correctly. > > Ingo. > _______________________________________________ > Computer-go mailing list > Computer-go@computer-go.org > http://computer-go.org/mailman/listinfo/computer-go >
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