Author: Ricardo Gibert
Date: 08:15:21 07/29/03
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On July 29, 2003 at 00:54:39, Keith Evans wrote: >On July 29, 2003 at 00:31:17, Robert Hyatt wrote: > >>On July 28, 2003 at 20:59:24, Vincent Diepeveen wrote: >>>It is like comparing a sniper rifle from 2003 with a sniper rifle from world war >>>1. >>> >>>Distances they shot at in world war 1 and 2 with sniper rifles must have been a >>>few hundreds of meters. >> >>In WW1 my grandfather was a sniper. He shot at ranges up to 1000 yards. >> >>In WW2 my father was a sniper. He shot at ranges up to 1000 yards. >> >>Today, a neighbor down the street is a sniper. He shoots at ranges up to 1000 >>yards. >> >>_nobody_ shoots a sniper rifle at ranges of "kilometers" today. "kilometer" >>perhaps. With an occasional attempt at up to 2km with a big 50 cal "rifle". >> > >Supposedly Gunnery Sergeant Hathcock took out an NVA at 2500 yards with a .50 >caliber machine gun. A friend got into the whole "Marine Sniper" scene and it This must be the Mcmillan Tac-50 fired from 2430 meters? >was a little scary. Nice skill to have if you need it, but it scares me when >people fantasize about it. (Especially when the word "safety" is spelled >incorrectly at the range ;-) > >>This is just another area where you know nothing, but write as though you are >>an expert. >> >>BTW, Hsu's move generator is _not_ a lot better than Belle. All you have to >>do is read his paper to see what he did... > >Hsu did add some modes which Belle did not have. For example finding checking, >check evasion, and attacking moves. He hints at some other things like >generating moves for pruning but this is very vague. He may have handled those >basic special case moves (castling, ep captures) more elegantly, but it's hard >to tell without seeing the implementation details of each. Hsu also added >hardware repetition detection which is not part of the basic move generator >logic, but if you group it with movegen just for the sake of argument then it's >a noteworthy improvement. Maybe the adjective that Vincent used was a little >extreme, but this statement doesn't bother me too much. > >-K
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