Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 19:02:15 08/20/02
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On August 20, 2002 at 17:45:32, Vincent Diepeveen wrote: >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A lot of it was outdated in 98 already, but even so, it is published in 2002.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? My Ph.D. dissertation is not about computer chess. It is specifically about parallel search and _only_ parallel search. Unfortunately, the only place you can get a copy is thru University Microfilm, the US clearinghouse for all dissertations, generally. I wrote the thing using Interleaf 4.0... By the time I thought about it, Interleaf was far beyond 4.0 and there was no way to read in the old files and convert them. I wish I had saved it as ASCII or something, but hindsight is 100% of course... There is a copy in the UAB Library, and a printed copy in my office, and a couple of others on campus. I printed a copy for Hsu 10+ years ago, and a few others, so there may be copies around I don't remember... > 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 > All of those are important works. You have to take baby steps before you can sprint... >>> >>>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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