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Subject: Re: To Ed Schröder about the

Author: Ralph E. Carter

Date: 17:51:45 12/01/98

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On December 01, 1998 at 20:36:09, Kim Hvarre wrote:

>Hello Ed,
>
>Exiting project You and Chistophe have going with The Tiger. In this relation
>just one question, quoting Your homepage:
>
>"One of CHESS-TIGER's search algorithms has been implemented in REBEL and is
>further improved by Ed Schröder. The CHESS-TIGER idea plus Ed's own improvements
>have speed up REBEL with a factor of 2-3. The first results are very promising.
>At the playing level of 1:00 per move REBEL scores 47½-31½ against various
>strong computer opponents.
>
>For the moment the conclusion is Christophe's idea has given REBEL an elo jump
>of at least 30 elo points but more likely the gain in playing strength is 50 elo
>points or even more. The basic idea is im-plemented in the third party engines
>of:"
>
>The question: The large jump in speed is this on behalf of something else
>(knowledge, whatever) or is it just a "simple trick"/algoritme/?, You and
>perhaps others have overseen?
>If so, it's a rather amusing and a nice perspective in respect to the promising
>future of search.
>
>Regards,
>
>kim

The best place to find Ed Schroeder now is on the "Rebel Board", at
http://www.rebel.nl/wwwboard/wwwboard.html



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