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Subject: Re: hardware or software??

Author: Tom Kerrigan

Date: 19:48:31 03/08/00

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On March 08, 2000 at 21:50:55, leonid wrote:

>or can't say in the way that it could sound familiar. It is very nice that you
>indicated me this point. Even if I listen what people speak in this place I do
>my writing completely alone. Some entirely wrong or new decisions are possible.

I admire you for writing your program on your own. But don't you think there's a
point when you should at least try some of this stuff that's known to be good?

>Mate solving logic (default level) even make double search. First 6 plies deep
>brute force, and second mixed brute force and through speedy logic 14 plies
>deep. All the time that mate solving logic think on the 400Mhz it represent less
>that 0.055 sec. Since the speediest "positional logic" can see 6 plies by brute
>force only in 1 or 2 seconds, 0.055 spent by two search in "mate solving logic"
>is not that much.

Maybe not. But for more than 90% (or whatever) of the time, it's still
absolutely and totally worthless. Besides, my normal search is perfectly capable
of finding mates anyway.

-Tom



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