Author: Harald Faber
Date: 06:23:43 05/25/99
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On May 25, 1999 at 08:57:01, blass uri wrote: >>>The evaluation of Junior is based on some numbers in the program and changing >>>these numbers can improve Junior. >> >>It simply reminds me on tuning Chessmaster... > >The evaluation function of chessmaster is not public and you cannot tune most >of the numbers in the evaluation function. > >You can tune only small number of parameters. Right, but it is the same way to try to find better settings. >>>>Fast searching=little knowledge >>> >>>1)I think that a little knowledge that is correct is better than a lot of >>>knowledge that is not correct. >> >>I don't expect ANY of the current programs containing incorrect knowledge. > >You do not expect it but I am sure that most of the programs contains incorrect >knowledge because the programmers do not know what is the correct numbers and it >is not an easy task to find them. > >> >>>2) I am not sure if fast searching =little knowledge >>>It can be also some tricks to do the same things faster. >> >>Sure. Think of the (alleged?) 40% speed gain Fritz4->Fritz5. >>But I am sure that a program doing 20-30knps has MUCH more knowledge inside than >>a program at 200knps. > >I am not sure about it. >Uri That means you think these programmers aren't able to write efficient routines???
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