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

Author: Uri Blass

Date: 06:37:36 01/23/03

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On January 23, 2003 at 09:30:48, Peter Fendrich wrote:

>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

I agree and I expect a lot of them to be productive for movei.

Uri



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