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Subject: Re: Is Shredder 7 our last hope?

Author: Uri Blass

Date: 06:30:39 12/09/02

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On December 09, 2002 at 09:22:27, Bob Durrett wrote:

>On December 09, 2002 at 09:10:16, Uri Blass wrote:
>
>>On December 09, 2002 at 08:33:39, Bob Durrett wrote:
>>
>>>On December 09, 2002 at 06:47:24, Kurt Utzinger wrote:
>>>
>>>>Why last hope? We should be aware of the fact that improvements can/will only be
>>>>(very) small and average chess people will even not be able to notice.
>>>>Kurt
>>>>
>>>>http://www.beepworld.de/members39/utzinger
>>>
>>>So, is it reasonable to infer that chess engines have come to a dead end, where
>>>the only significant improvements will come from hardware improvements?
>>>
>>>Bob D.
>>
>>I think that you need to wait some years for it to happen.
>>Chess engines are not close to their real potential.
>>
>>Uri
>
>Well, that makes me feel better.  : )
>
>Could you say WHY you believe that chess engines are not close to their real
>potential?  What sort of improvements, not resulting from hardware improvements,
>do you anticipate?

I believe that programs generates trees that are too big and it is possible to
get the same target by clearly smaller trees.

I believe that the evaluation also can be improved significantly.
Programs do not know about theoretical draws of KRPP vs KR and it is only one
example.

Uri



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