Author: Kai Middleton
Date: 09:21:45 11/24/97
Junior, which won the recent Paris ICCA Championship, has the following comments from its authors on the ICCA homepage: http://www.dcs.qmw.ac.uk/~icca/WMCCC15/descript.htm Junior is written entirely in high-level language. Most of its search and evaluation features are original, and some of them are still unique to our knowledge. In the NPS vs. knowledge debate in particular, Junior has found an original way to make a middle stand. I am a programmer, though not a chess programmer, and I am curious about the comments made by Amir Ban and Shay Bushinsky. My understanding of the "NPS vs. knowledge" debate is that some programs with simple positional evaluation functions fare better as they are able to calculate more (e.g. Chess Genius?), whereas others favor more use of heuristics which slow down the processing but allow for implementation of "strategy." I have a question: how does Junior achieve a "middle stand."
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