Re: MiniGo open sourced

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" <[email protected]>
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 "Those who know, do not publish.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.
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