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

Author: Peter Fendrich

Date: 06:30:48 01/23/03

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On January 23, 2003 at 09:25:26, Uri Blass wrote:

>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.

Of course they don't but I think that listening to the ideas behind Rebel is
well spended time bearing in mind it's success and playing style.

/Peter



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