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Subject: Re: Junior-Crafty hardware user experiment - 19th and final game

Author: Tord Romstad

Date: 02:36:06 12/27/03

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On December 27, 2003 at 03:08:34, Vasik Rajlich wrote:

>It seems to me that the areas where an engine can get the most benefit are:
>
>A) Guiding search (ie reducing/extending): very very high
>B) Quality of eval: very high
>C) Overall speed, including speed of eval: medium/low, unless very big factors
>are involved, such as building specialized hardware or getting a chance to run
>on a big mp machine

I couldn't agree more.  I think most amateur programmers spend way too much time
on low-level optimisation.  They could improve their engines much more rapidly
and
easily by focusing on the search and eval.

Tord



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