Author: Wayne Lowrance
Date: 12:23:45 10/21/99
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On October 21, 1999 at 13:21:00, Christophe Theron wrote: >On October 21, 1999 at 10:33:16, Peter Pilarinos wrote: > >>My personal opinion is that it would be EXTREMELY difficult to make further >>progress based on the present Genius program structure. I remember Richard Lang >>saying this in one interview that I read about him some years back. His programs >>are very unique in their structure. It was this type of programming tequnique >>that allowed the Genius programs to be so poweful on relatively slow computers. >>Now that the computers are so much quicker, the advantages of this type of >>search structure are somwhat dim. I believe that if Mr. Lang wanted to make >>futher noticable progress, he would have to re-write his program from scratch, >>using different, more contemporary methods. He is obviously a very talented man, >>and I am sure he could do this if he wished. >> >>Pete P > >I'm sure you are going to think that the following is very arrogant, but I >really think what he said is BULLSHIT. > >Lang's program are not unique in their structure. He wants you to believe so, >but it's not true. He is using alpha-beta, hash tables, pruning techniques, >static piece square tables, dynamic part in the evaluation and so on. > >What Genius misses is some modern pruning techniques that work better at higher >depths. Because Genius is killed by search depth, which is ironic as he was >killing everybody by search depth several years ago. probably also relying less >on static evaluation made at the root would be needed. > >The truth is that he has probably lost the will to work on Genius. What he has >does not need to be rewritten. He should keep almost everything, because he has >powerful algorithms. He just has to add several modern techniques, which are BTW >publicly known. > >In this case however, Genius would become a program similar to many others, with >just a little bit of originality. > >But who am I to pretend he is wrong... :) > > > Christophe Your post is appreciated, Your language is not ! Wayne
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