Author: leonid
Date: 14:07:06 06/21/00
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On June 21, 2000 at 13:38:41, Tom Kerrigan wrote: >If you think that material-only evaluation programs are good for anything, >you're sadly mistaken. I said only that material evaluation is evaluation about everything in principe. About tactics... or just say it. I agree that in actual state of hardware it is not enough have only material evaluation, but its importance will grow as rapidly as hardware capacity will improve. Very soon program that have in its base raw material evaluation only (with very little dead brain tactics) with some openings and data for the end of the game, will be good enough for very decent game. Leonid. >I can predict the moves such a program would make even if it was running on >phenominally fast hardware: > >White: Tom >Black: Super fast material-only program > >1. e4 Na6 >2. Nf3 Nb8 >3. d4 Na6 >4. Nc3 Nb8 >5. Bb5 Nh6 > >etc. > >-Tom
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