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Subject: Re: So which programs beat which, only due to superior chess understanding?

Author: Amir Ban

Date: 12:34:01 05/06/02

On May 05, 2002 at 19:58:09, Christophe Theron wrote:

>
>"Knowledge" in the sense of positional evaluation (that's what most people think
>about when they talk about knowledge) makes for 10% of the strength of a chess
>program.
>
>Chess is 90% about tactics (which is a concept close to "search").
>

Before strongly disagreeing (as I guess I will), what does this mean ?

If I freeze my search engine and work only to improve the evaluation, how much
do you expect the total strength to improve ? Is it limited ?

I understand that you are saying that it will change the style but overall
strength will not be much changed.

Amir

Re: So which programs beat which, only due to superior chess understanding? Christophe Theron 15:06:47 05/06/02
- Re: So which programs beat which, only due to superior chess understanding? Amir Ban 04:44:16 05/07/02
  - Re: So which programs beat which, only due to superior chess understanding? Robert Hyatt 15:22:44 05/07/02
  - Re: So which programs beat which, only due to superior chess understanding? Uri Blass 11:17:51 05/07/02
    - Re: So which programs beat which, only due to superior chess understanding? Amir Ban 01:27:43 05/08/02
      - Re: So which programs beat which, only due to superior chess understanding? Peter McKenzie 16:31:50 05/08/02
        
        Re: So which programs beat which, only due to superior chess understanding? Uri Blass 23:07:03 05/08/02
        
        Re: So which programs beat which, only due to superior chess understanding? Peter McKenzie 01:10:32 05/09/02
        
        Re: So which programs beat which, only due to superior chess understanding? Peter Kappler 20:33:35 05/08/02
  - Re: So which programs beat which, only due to superior chess understanding? Christophe Theron 10:35:12 05/07/02
    - why not Thorsten Czub 09:39:01 05/08/02
    - Re: So which programs beat which, only due to superior chess understanding? Amir Ban 01:19:16 05/08/02
      - Re: So which programs beat which, only due to superior chess understanding? Christophe Theron 09:15:11 05/08/02
        
        Re: So which programs beat which, only due to superior chess understanding? Marc van Hal 07:50:06 05/09/02
    - Re: So which programs beat which, only due to superior chess understanding? Terry McCracken 15:12:08 05/07/02
      - Re: So which programs beat which, only due to superior chess understanding? stuart taylor 17:30:55 05/07/02
- Re: So which programs beat which, only due to superior chess understanding? Uri Blass 16:45:22 05/06/02
  - Re: So which programs beat which, only due to superior chess understanding? Christophe Theron 19:31:28 05/06/02
    - Re: So which programs beat which, only due to superior chess understanding? Uri Blass 23:29:26 05/06/02
      - Re: So which programs beat which, only due to superior chess understanding? Miguel A. Ballicora 08:29:40 05/07/02
        
        Re: So which programs beat which, only due to superior chess understanding? Uri Blass 09:34:57 05/07/02
        
        Re: So which programs beat which, only due to superior chess understanding? Miguel A. Ballicora 10:19:53 05/07/02
        
        Re: So which programs beat which, only due to superior chess understanding? Uri Blass 10:53:20 05/07/02
        
        Re: So which programs beat which, only due to superior chess understanding? Miguel A. Ballicora 13:58:30 05/07/02
        
        Re: So which programs beat which, only due to superior chess understanding? stuart taylor 17:16:15 05/07/02
    - Re: So which programs beat which, only due to superior chess understanding? Peter McKenzie 20:57:13 05/06/02
      - Re: So which programs beat which, only due to superior chess understanding? Christophe Theron 10:40:05 05/07/02

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