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Subject: Re: Deep Blue--Part III

Author: Ed Schröder

Date: 23:55:05 05/10/98

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>Posted by Vincent Diepeveen on May 10, 1998 at 18:51:35:

>Preprocessor programs generally cannot see the consequences of
>positions that change, and in these positions the pawnstructure is
>complex no doubt, which demands an evaluation at the leaves
>rather than in the root.

>Rebel is outdated in this respect, although rebels preprocessor
>is very good, no doubt.

Rebel's preprocessor is about 1% of its total knowledge. I told you
this several times. In general I am against preprocessing but in
several cases you can solve complex things in a most convenient way
using preprocessing.


>The search depths of nowadays however clearly demand a
>different way to evaluate a position.

>Note that Rebel tournament book usually does a good job
>in avoiding complex pawn structures.

Also not true.

- Ed -



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