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Subject: Re: New Rebel-Century4 style Machëide and its games from Knaak position

Author: Peter Berger

Date: 13:01:02 02/18/02

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On February 18, 2002 at 15:40:51, José Carlos wrote:

>  Reading your post I see:
>
>  - You have no definition of the 'new paradigm'; just some romantic ideas but
>nothing concrete. I have nothing against romantic ideas, I must say, but they
>are not enough to define a paradigm.
>  - Chris differentiates in his post:
>
>    * Fast search			* Heavy prunning
>    * Light eval		vs	* Careful eval
>    * Static only eval			* Dynamic eval
>    * SEARCH				* EVAL
>
>  Chris' own words:
>
>----------------------------------------------------------------------------
>The new paradigm differs from the classical by one simple conceptual switch.
>The classical paradigm makes fast and simple evaluation at each node and
>generates intelligence from the search tree. The classical programmer
>looks for ways to make his search more efficient and his evaluation
>function simpler and faster. The 'looking-glass' paradigm makes slow and
>complex evaluations at each node and prefers to prune the search tree by
>use of this evaluation function.
>----------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>  So, according to Chris, most today's program are new paradigm, and specially
>DIEP. Please, correct me if I'm wrong.
>
>  José C.

Thanks. That was the first post about the "new paradigm" I was able to
understand. It seems there is still hope for me :)
pete



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