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Subject: Re: What Gambit New Paradigm could be...if it exist

Author: Uri Blass

Date: 14:13:16 10/22/00

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On October 22, 2000 at 17:06:17, Ratko V Tomic wrote:

>> 1)I believe that the difference between Gambittiger and the default version of
>> tiger is the fact that Gambit has bigger positional scores.
>
>That wouldn't account for having two separate programs and the intent Christophe
>mentioned to unify the two in the future and get the best of both worlds. If it
>were just evaluation terms and weights one could just have a single program with
>changed settings (using the union of all the evaluation terms in the two Tigers,
>then if the setting "i" has weight(i)=0 don't evaluate term T(i)). It must be a
>greater difference than just tweaking the weights of various evaluation terms.
>And if were that simple everyone would tweak their's, too, but apparently that
>alone doesn't work very well (as Bob can tell you).

I do not say that the only difference is numbers but my understanding from
previous posts is that the difference is simply the evaluation function and not
new search rules.

I did not say that it is a simple to do it.
I only said that I do not call it a new paradigm.

Uri



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