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

Author: Vincent Diepeveen

Date: 14:45:32 08/20/02

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On August 20, 2002 at 11:06:30, Tony Werten wrote:

>On August 20, 2002 at 10:55:33, Gian-Carlo Pascutto wrote:
>
>>On August 20, 2002 at 09:43:17, Sune Fischer wrote:
>>
>>>I had the same thought, copy-paste from net and you have a thesis, amazing...
>>>
>>>Looks more like an article for the sunday paper than a thesis.
>>
>>I would have to disagree 200%.
>>
>>It's by far one of the most complete accounts of whats needed in the
>>actual implementation of a program, it contains several new ideas,
>>describes some known ones that weren't formally described before and
>>it's written in a very understandable way.
>>
>>Also note that the main parts of it date back to before 1998. It
>>was only published now because there were a few chapters
>>that never quite got finished in the years before. This is why some
>>parts may be dated now.
>
>A lot of it was outdated in 98 already, but even so, it is published in 2002.
>Tony

Giving a good oversight on what is in the field going on and also
writing a chessprogram on your own, that's definitely a very
good thing. Let's ask you a counter example. Which writing on computerchess
is sufficient in your eyes?

The unfindable dissertation of Robert Hyatt? The writings of Marc Uniacke?
The collection and especially historic overview on computerchess from
Jaap v/d Herik (taking a look at the book): 630 pages?

The multiprobe article of someone who searched till only 8 ply search
depth and concluded that 4 probes was optimal for him? Or the 1989
article of Rainer Feldmann and a few others on parallel search where
they somehow managed to find a speedup in their writing based upon 4-6
ply searches?

Best regards,
Vincent

>>
>>But even discounting the latter, your comments are downright
>>insulting and injustified, IMHO.
>>
>>Maybe I should throw a stack of ICCA journals at you, to learn
>>to relativate.
>>
>>--
>>GCP




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