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Subject: Re: What is the average nodes per second for minimax?

Author: blass uri

Date: 14:38:13 06/21/00

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On June 21, 2000 at 17:07:06, leonid wrote:

>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 disagree.
I guess that in this case the program may lose by lines like 1.c3 e5 2.Qc2(black
out of book) Na6 3.e4 Nb8 4.d4 exd4 5.cxd4 Na6 6.Nf3 Nb8 7.Bc4

The program may win some weak humans if it runs on a good hardware but it will
have no chance against grandmasters.

Uri



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