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Subject: Re: Does Hiarcs 7.32 play better than Rebel against human?

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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