Author: Uri Blass
Date: 09:32:50 01/06/03
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On January 06, 2003 at 11:08:31, Steve Maughan wrote: >Sune, > >I agree that Goliath is probably not doing a search exactly like what others are >doing. Nevertheless it is strong tactically (not just due to a high NPS) and it >does seem to do some leaf node evaluation (it certainly does the square of >passed pawns trick). I remember the author did confirm that the key bit are >hand coded assembler and he was counting nodes in the usual manner i.e. on entry >to AlphaBeta. Overall I prefer to err on the side of being impressed and not >right-off the nps just because it's high. > >Regards, > >Steve strong in tactics? I do not agree. It may solve some test positions faster but yjr tactical level is not decided by that. If you are faster in 90% of the cases and play horrible blunders in 10% of the cases you cannot claim to be strong in tactics. chess often decided by a single mistake. It may be slightly stronger in tactics than public movei but movei is only in the beginning of it's developement. It is probably weaker in tactics than Fritz8 or Tiger15 or Shredder7 and test suites may be the wrong way to compare(the way to compare is by looking for tactical errors in games). Uri Uri
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