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

Author: Tom Kerrigan

Date: 19:38:44 06/27/00

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On June 27, 2000 at 21:24:44, leonid wrote:

>On June 27, 2000 at 15:57:47, Tom Kerrigan wrote:
>
>>On June 27, 2000 at 15:37:27, leonid wrote:
>>
>>>On June 27, 2000 at 14:08:55, Tom Kerrigan wrote:
>>>
>>>>On June 26, 2000 at 20:27:27, leonid wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>On June 26, 2000 at 13:34:51, Tom Kerrigan wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>>Just go through search.c of TSCP. It is a few hours of work that will save you
>>>>>>years of continued confusion.
>>>>>>-Tom
>>>>>
>>>>>Thanks, Tom! Will try to do it some day. I do have some confusion but it is
>>>>>about words and not about logic.
>>>>>
>>>>>Leonid.
>>>>
>>>>No, I think your confusion is about both.
>>>>-Tom
>>>
>>>Tom, I doubt that you ever read a Bible. After the script, it is only Almighty
>>>that can create its first chess program from zero up. He could be confused or
>>>know nothing about logic. Never mind! He will succeed anyway. He will proceed,
>>>in making its first prototype of program, by using his Magic. So, you slightly
>>>exaggerate when you think that I could do the same. Make my program when my
>>>logic was absent. You take me for the God itself. In reality, I only started
>>>like Him, from nothing. Later I did my writing after strict and clear logic. Was
>>>incapable to do otherwise since I had no better method to choose from. I had no
>>>God's Magic to succeed!
>>>
>>>Leonid.
>>
>>I am not denying the fact that you started from scratch or that you have written
>>a chess program.
>>
>>But you are clearly confused about how to write a competitive chess program,
>>which prompted my suggestion about TSCP.
>>
>>If your goal is not to write a competitive chess program, then I suggest you
>>stop posting on CCC. Nobody can understand your posts, and you do not act on any
>>suggestions; the net effect is that you are creating confusion and ill will.
>>
>>If your goal IS to write a competitive program, you need to start paying
>>attention to people. As is, you are getting lots of good help from people, and
>>it's all going to waste.
>>
>>-Tom
>
>Tom, I am sometime in Chess Club not that much for finding how to write my
>program, not even how do it competitive. This I can do alone. This is simple. I
>am here mainly to go "gossip"  a little bit about chess programming and verify
>some parameters in program. Recently it was about "effective branching factor",
>raw speed of certain part of my program, and so like. Sometime it is very easy
>to  find what you are been looking for. Like explanation that I found one day
>about "extensions", when I even not knew that they existe. Sometime it is not
>so. You can talk to somebody and find more about personality of man that about
>data that you need. And what I never, ever expected is that this place is so
>serious. You must take special care for using only precise, sacred words.
>Otherwise, you will be never understood and left in silence.

If I started e-mailing you with made-up terms like "general orientation" and
expected to be understood, I bet you wouldn't be so happy with the situation
either.
-Tom



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