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Subject: Re: Questions to be answered in the WMCCC.

Author: Uri Blass

Date: 14:42:59 08/28/00

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On August 28, 2000 at 14:15:57, Christophe Theron wrote:

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>So I think that no top program is a 100% root processor (not even 80% actually),
>and I also believe that no top program is a 0% root processor.

How can you calculate if it is 10%,20% or 30%?

I know that a program is more than 0% root processor if I see cases when the
evaluation is changed not because of deeper search.

Example:
I remember cases when I analyzed a game with Genius3 and Genius gave me an
advantage of 0.5 pawn.
The program wanted to castle and expected castling from my opponent at all time
controls.
These moves were exactly the moves that were played in the game.

After giving the moves to Genius3 it suddenly saw no advantage for me and not
because of seeing deeper.

When I see cases like this I know that the program does preprocessing.
I know from my experience that i never saw things like this with chessmaster so
it seems to me that chessmaster does not do preprocessing and if it does it is
very small and does not change the evaluation by more than 0.1 pawn.

Uri



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