Author: Harald Faber
Date: 03:17:56 05/25/99
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On May 25, 1999 at 05:58:59, blass uri wrote: >>>I think that the commercial Junior is not best against humans but >>>the reason is not the fact that it is a fast searcher. >>>Uri >> >>What else is the reason? > >There are things in Junior that can be improved without changing the fact that >it is a fast searcher. Improving in most cases is adding knowledge. And this would make Junior slower. :-) >The evaluation function should be changed and my Junior5.4 has a different >evaluation function. Do you believe that changing and not adding would make an improvement? >Junior clears the hash tables after every move so it cannot learn from previous >search and it is not because of the fact that it is a fast searcher. Whoops. Any reason for that? >I know that Junior5.4 has a different evaluation function(probably better) and >it is not slower. ... >There are many things to improve also in Junior5.4 and again it has nothing to >do with the fact that Junior5.4 is a fast searcher. Fast searching=little knowledge Where do you see improvements? By fine-tuning that little knowledge? >It has more to do with the fact that Amir Ban is not living from developing >Junior and has a full time job in M-systems. >Uri
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