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Subject: Re: How many chess programmers....

Author: Uri Blass

Date: 06:25:26 01/23/03

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On January 23, 2003 at 09:09:33, Peter Fendrich wrote:

>On January 22, 2003 at 14:28:30, Jonas Cohonas wrote:
>
>>Can say already that they have benefited from ed's release of his programming
>>ideas?
>>
>>Just curious.
>>Jonas
>
>His articles is, for me, the most enjoyable chess programming readings since
>"Chess Skill In Man and Machine". There are lot's of great ideas that also give
>raise to new ideas of my own.
>His different solutions are so well balanced for his own program that I can't
>just take one of them and think that it will work in my program with it's
>completely differrent strucuture but I'm convinced that some day some of it will
>be found in Terra in some, maybe adjusted, form.
>
>For instance the idea with EVAL in each node is probably nothing that I will try
>in the near future because of all the re-think necessary for me.
>I thought that the days of "evaluation in each node" was counted by now and
>disappeared with Genius or some of those programs back then (CSTAL is an
>exception). Ed showed that using eval in all nodes in a smart way definitely can
>pay off and maybe there more commercials with that design.
>
>/Peter

Movei independently from the first day also evaluates every node and maybe there
are more free programs with that design.

I also do not assume that everything that the commercial do is the best because
they do not know everything.

Uri



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