Author: Uri Blass
Date: 09:10:18 11/22/00
I found from my experience that Gandalf does not do preprocessing. I asked the programmer about it to know if this is always the case(because I suspected that maybe there are some rare cases when it is a preprocessor) and he told me that Gandalf does not care about the root position. I think that it is very good for analysis because I can generate a tree and use the scores of the program to decide about the move when I cannot do it with other programs because the score is not made from the same point of view. I remember also that Amir claimed that Junior does a little bit of preprocessing but he does not like it and thinks to change it I am interested to know about the behaviour of other top programs. I think that it is possible to divide top program by the reply to the question if they do preprocessing. I already know that Rebel and Tiger do preprocessing and I also know that shredder5 is a preprocessor by my definition(I do not have it but I asked the programmer about it and he told me that shredder5 is not a preprocessor by the average definition of it but but there is some preprocessing done at the root). I also know that crafty is a preprocessor(not by the average definition that I do not know). I am also interested to know what is the average definition. My definition is that if there is some preprocessing done at the root then the program is a preprocessor. Uri
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