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Subject: Re: Chess Programmers -- take note: M. N. J. van Kervinck's Master's Thesis

Author: Vincent Diepeveen

Date: 03:59:35 08/20/02

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On August 20, 2002 at 06:53:29, Russell Reagan wrote:

>What is the difference between what you do to get a masters degree and what you
>do to get a PhD (other than more school)? Does a person earning a master's
>degree write a thesis and a person earning a PhD a dissertation? And what's the
>difference between a thesis and a dissertation?
>
>I like this paper (the first half that I've read so far). I'm not quite sure
>about some of the things he says though. He talks about how his program gets 100
>Knps, and how it *could* be three times as fast if it were written in assembly,
>but I find that hard to believe, since then it would be getting twice as many
>nps as Fritz, and Fritz is a "fast" engine, right?
>
>Russell

Marcel is not lying. I have seen Rookie with my own eyes when he had
it written in assembly a few years ago. It was *very* fast. Note that
he runs basically on non x86 processors. The more complex a processor is
the more you can achieve at it with assembly.

Getting more nps than fritz is no problem even in C, every good programmer
can do that, but obviously it's questionable whether it plays better.

Best regards,
Vincent




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